Bartlett Hotel

The gap-windowed ruin on Main Street was once Jerome's finest lodging. The wooden Grandview Hotel stood here first, the town's earliest two-story building, until fire took it in 1898. The brick Bartlett rose in 1901 with storefronts along First Street and guest rooms each painted a different color, and for twenty years it housed the offices of The News, Jerome's longest-running paper, along with a bank and shops. The ground slides of the 1930s left it unstable; abandoned in the 1940s, it was sold piecemeal for salvage, its top floor stripped away to leave the hollow shell seen today.

What the plaque says

Before the Bartlett Hotel, the Grandview Hotel, a wooden structure built in 1895, stood here as the first two-story building in Jerome. In 1898 it was destroyed by fire. The Bartlett Hotel was then built of brick in 1901, with five storefronts on the sub-level along First Street and an interior in which each room was decorated a different color. The office of The News, Jerome's longest running newspaper, was in the Bartlett for twenty years. The building became unstable with the slides in the 1930s and was abandoned in the 1940s; the mining company later sold portions for salvage, removing the entire top floor.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jerome — steps away
  The billion-dollar copper camp clinging to Cleopatra Hill — now the largest ghost town in America
• Tuzigoot — 5.2 mi
  A hilltop Sinagua pueblo over the Verde, dug out of the ground in the Depression
• Montezuma Castle — 19 mi
  A five-story Sinagua cliff dwelling, misnamed for an emperor who was never here
• Sedona — 22 mi
  Red-rock skyline, Little Hollywood, and the town Sedona Schnebly gave her name to

More markers nearby

• Jerome Blast Furnace — steps away
• Husbands' Alley — steps away
• Jerome's Famous Sliding Jail — steps away
• The Audrey Shaft and UVX Operations — 0.3 mi