Coronado Hotel

The Coronado opened in 1928 as a forty-six-room hotel, one of many that went up as the automobile and the railroad brought travelers to a booming Tucson. It served that trade until 1974, then sat empty until a downtown restoration in 1991 gave it a second life. Today, instead of tourists, it houses low-income elderly and disabled residents, an old commercial hotel turned to a gentler purpose. Its survival is a small victory in a downtown that lost many of its 1920s buildings to the wrecking ball.

What the plaque says

Built in 1928 by the T.C. Triplett Company for Harold M. Brooks as a 46-room hotel, it remained in operation as an active hotel from 1928 to 1974. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1991 it was restored and re-dedicated by the Downtown Development Corporation of Tucson as low-income elderly and handicapped housing.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tucson — 0.6 mi
  The Old Pueblo — four thousand years of farming under the sky islands
• Mission San Xavier del Bac — 8.4 mi
  The White Dove of the Desert — the finest Spanish Baroque church in the country
• Saguaro National Park — 21 mi
  The giant cactus, and the O'odham who count it as kin

More markers nearby

• Camp Lowell 1866-1873 — 0.4 mi
• August 20th Park — 0.5 mi
• Commemorating the Raising of the First American Flag within the Walled City of Tucson — 0.5 mi
• Court Street — 0.5 mi