The Waldorf Hotel was a historic hotel building on Main Street in

Andover, South Dakota Andover is a town in northwestern Day County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 66 at the 2020 census. History A post office called Andover was established in 1881. The town most likely takes its name from Andover, Massachusetts. ...

. It was a three-story orange brick building with a rounded projecting section at the street corner. A single-story porch with turned posts and bracket extended along two sides of the building. The hotel was built in 1903, primarily to serve passengers switching from one railroad line to another. It featured a barber shop, a billiard hall and a huge dining room and reception room. It also acted as a social center in the community, hosting ice cream socials and dances. The Waldorf Hotel closed in the 1970s. The hotel was listed on the

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in 1979 and was torn down on May 7, 2015, after parts of the wall collapsed.

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