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"THE OLD HOTEL"
St. John, Kansas
by Ruth Weese Beitler
From the May 12, 1887, issue of the St. John Sun:
"A meeting was called the first of the week by
some of the prominent business men of our city for
the purpose of organizing a stock company to build
a $15,000 hotel on 5th Avenue".
Around 1917 the building was remodeled with pillars
and a veranda and housed the "Mueller Chiropractic
Sanitorium". A few years later the building was
once again remodeled and used as a hotel, the "St.
John Hotel".
and Mrs. John
More recent proprietors were Mr.
Kay and still later, Hattie French.
The old hotel, one of the oldest landmarks left in
St. John, still stands in 1981.
"THE OLD HOTEL" painting is the artist's con-
ception of what the St. John Hotel must have looked
like during the late 1920's.
Compliments of
THE ST. JOHN NATIONAL BANK
Shedd-Brown, Inc., P.O. Box 27048, Minneapolis, MN 55427
176,659
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