The Antlers Hotel is located in downtown
Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States. From the 1880s to the early 1920s an alliance of railroad companies, entrepreneurs, and sportsmen made Spirit Lake and the
Iowa Great Lakes region into an upscale tourist destination based on boating, hunting and gun tournaments. Completed in 1902, this hotel was built at the height of that development.
[ with ] A significant addition to the hotel was completed in 1930. Starting in the 1920s tourism started to change with the increasing popularity of the automobile and the decline of the railroads. This is one of the few railroad-era tourism related buildings remaining in the area. It was designed in the
Neoclassical style by
Austin, Minnesota architect Frank W. Kinney. The three-story brick structure is built on a raised basement. It features brick columns, arched windows, ornamental
cornice
In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a ...
s and a wrap-around
veranda. ''Antlers Hotel'' was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
[ It has been renovated into a 14-unit apartment complex.
]
References
Hotel buildings completed in 1902
Neoclassical architecture in Iowa
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Dickinson County, Iowa
Buildings and structures in Dickinson County, Iowa
1902 establishments in Iowa
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