Randolph Hotel (Des Moines, Iowa)
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Randolph Hotel (Des Moines, Iowa)
OR:
Randolph Hotel (Des Moines, Iowa) on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

The Randolph Hotel or Hotel Randolph is a nine-story hotel located in
Des Moines Des Moines is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Iowa, most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is the county seat of Polk County, Iowa, Polk County with parts extending into Warren County, Iowa, Wa ...
,
Iowa Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...
, United States. This hotel was designed and built by the H.L. Stevens & Company in 1911. It rents rooms for a weekly rate. Most guests are considered long term, meaning they stay for more than thirty consecutive days. The Randolph Hotel is located on the corner of Fourth Street and Court Avenue downtown, along the historic Court Avenue strip. It is an eight-story hotel "constructed in 1912 as the first tall and only 'absolutely fireproof hotel' in the city" of
Des Moines, Iowa Des Moines is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Iowa, most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa. It is the county seat of Polk County, Iowa, Polk County with parts extending into Warren County, Iowa, Wa ...
. Ironically there was a fire on 2-19-2010. It is located at 200-204 4th Street in the downtown commercial district of Des Moines. (48 pages, with maps, plans, historic images, and five recent exterior and interior photos) The property was added to the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
(NRHP) on June 11, 2009, and the listing was announced as the featured listing in the
National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an List of federal agencies in the United States, agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government, within the US Department of the Interior. The service manages all List ...
's weekly list of June 19, 2009. In 2008, rehabilitation of the building into low- and moderate-income rental housing, to be funded in part by federal and state historic preservation tax credits, was planned.


References

{{Historic Des Moines structures Buildings and structures in Des Moines, Iowa Economy of Des Moines, Iowa Hotel buildings completed in 1912 Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa National Register of Historic Places in Des Moines, Iowa 1912 establishments in Iowa