Famous Hotels of Old Jacksonville

Kloeppel Hotels

Robert Kloeppel came to this country from Germany in 1905, a penniless immigrant who spoke little English. He worked in a sawmill, rail yard and a ship yard,

then as a mechanic. He studied at night and became a lawyer. Then opened a law office in the Flagler Hotel. In 1919, he bought the hotel.

In 1926 he bulit the George Washington Hotel. Robert Kloepppel then bought the Mason Hotel and renamed it The Mayflower, and purchased

the Roosevelt Hotel.He became Florida's leading hotel man.

1936 Tampa Florida 1951

Windsor Hotel, Jacksonville Florida

Built in 1875, the Windsor Hotel attracted adventurers and statesmen visiting eastern Florida or making stopovers before traveling deeper into what was then the vast wilderness of the South.

In 1901, the Windsor Hotel burned down in a fire that ravaged most of downtown Jacksonville. The proprietors of the hotel set out to reconstruct, and bought out the neighboring

land where the St. James once stood.They sold the land on condition that it would not be used for construction of a competing hotel.The Windsor Hotel was demolished in 1950 to

make room for a parking lot. In 1955, I. Morris, vice president of Cuyahoga Wrecking Co., told the St. Petersburg Times that the hotel had held the strangest treasure he'd ever found during a

demolition: a subterranean room filled with illegal whiskey.

1903 M. Maloney 1904 1905 Emily E Lee 1905 Glenda Jaques 1906

Kingsbridge, New Jersey Southington, Connecticut Providence, Rhode Island

E.E. Briggs 1906 E.S. Fricket 1906 Walter S. Hill 1907 Evelyn Cockrell 1907 Nita Wells 1907

Georgetown, Massachusetts Hyde Park , Vermont Washington, D.C. Scarsboro, Georgia

H.M. Aldridge 1908 R. E. Corman 1911 1913 W. Osner 1915 Sara Thayer 1916

Boston, Massachusetts Kansas City, Missouri Grand Haven, Michigan Olsego, New York

Harry S Robbins 1920 Lillian M Riker 1931 Arnie Meyer

Auburn, Massachusetts Caldwell, New York Oakland, New Jersey

George Washington Hotel

The George Washington Hotel was built in 1926. The hotel was a 14 story building located on West Adams Street.

The hotel was closed in 1971 and demolished in 1973.

F.A. Balak 1932 Muriel Moore 1940

Grosse Pointe Park ,Wayne County, Michigan New Orleans, Louisiana

Hotel Jefferson

The Phrase that Pays 1954

New York, New York

The Carling Hotel

This was a 13 story hotel that opened in 1926, owned by Dinkler Hotel Company and named after Carling L. Dinkler.

In 1936 the name was changed to The Roosevelt. In 1963 a fire broke out and killed 22 people.The hotel

was closed in 1964. In later years it was reopened as a retirement community apartments.

Hotel Roosevelt

Became the Hotel Roosevelt in 1936, Closed in 1964

Charles Poole 1941

New Bedford, Massachusetts

The Grand View Hotel

The Grand View Hotel was built in 1883 and located on Forsythe Street.

Hotel was sold and opened as the Hotel Virginia in 1912. From 1941 to 1969

The hotel was known as the Gregg Hotel. Demolished in 1974.

The Shamrock Hotel

Westmoreland Hotel

1913

De Soto Hotel

The De Soto Hotel was located at the Park Street Viaduct. Remodeled in 1919, It operated from

1921 until 1966. Demolished in 1977.

Park Hotel

St. Albans Hotel

N.A. Ruggins 1943

Lakeland, Florida

The Everette Hotel

Purchased in 1881. Survived the fire of 1901

Edith Swartz 1908 J M Whipple 1913

Buchanan, Michigan Elgin, Illinois

The Duval Hotel

The Duval Hotel opened in 1893 and was one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire.

Phoebe Sebring 1905 Levi G. Copeland 1906 Will Harste 1910 Lucy Bennink 1911

Thomaston, Maine

The Aragon Hotel

Francis Vauclaui 1907 Niley Paylor 1909 Helen Schlafe 1911 A. L. Mar1911 Ethel M Blanchard 1913

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Laurissburg, North Carolina Cleveland, Ohio Huntington, Indiana Orange, New Jersey

1914 J.B.Shaw 1918 Inez Clark 1919 1921 R.G.Uhl 1947

Blairstown, New Jersey Lake Worth, Florida

R. G. Uhl 1948

Lake Worth, Florida

Hotel Seminole

The Seminole Hotel was designed by Henry Klutho and was located at the southeast corner of Forsyth and Hogan Streets. The 10-story building was built in 1909,

and the doors opened to the public on January 1, 1910. remained in operation until September 14, 1967.

It was eventually demolished in 1974, and today a mulit-level parking garage sits on the site of the once-handsome Klutho masterpiece

1912 D.S. Ayer 1912 A.J. Brown 1912 Frank Brown 1931 James Young 1938

New Haven, Conn. Worcester, Massachusetts New York E. Lynn, Massachusetts Ashville, North Carolina

M. Robison 1943

Borger, Texas

Hotel Albert

Mabel Barker 1924

Norwood New York .

Hotel Andrew Jackson

Hotel Windle

The Hotel Windle was located at 17 East Forsyth Street and extended all the way back to Adams Street. It was one of the first hotels of any size rebuilt after being destroyed by the Great Fire of 1901.

Work on this new hotel started on June 23, 1901. It was opened for business later that same year. (H. and W.B. Drew Company.)

The Hotel Windle consisted of two buildings - a three-story building on Forsyth Street and, directly behind it, a six-story building that faced Adams Street.

The hotel operated for more than 60 years before being torn down in 1962.

F. L. Perry 1919 Hattie Morse 1934 Lester Cox

Orlando, Florida Kingsland, Georgia Edenburg, Pennsylvania

William John McAllen

South Jacksonville, Florida

Hotel Flagler

Glenn Glass 1936 Gilbert Abelein 1942 Maida Blanchard

Cameron, Illinois Sima, New York

Hotel Burbridge

Opened in 1911

J.C. Sailor 1912 C.R. Wilber 1919 W.L. Alexander 1933 H. Christian 1940

Cissna Park, Illinois Rhode Island Atlantic City ,New Jersey Richwood, Virginia

Hotel Seneca

Ambassador Hotel

The 310 West Church Street Apartments (also known as the Ambassador Hotel) is a historic site located at 420 North Julia Street in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. On April 7, 1983, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It opened as the upscale 310 West Church Street Apartments in 1924. After twenty years of use, it was converted into a hotel. Its name subsequently changed several times: it was the Three-Ten Hotel in 1944, the Hotel Southland in 1947, the Griner Hotel in 1949 and in 1955, the Ambassador Hotel. Over the years the hotel fell into disrepair as Jacksonville's downtown went into decline. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, but this did not significantly improve its fortunes. It was converted into a low-rent single room occupancy, with rooms rented by the week. It closed in 1998.