Durlin Hotel

Built in 1902 as the Durlin Hotel, before the gold boom had fully arrived, this two-story adobe is the oldest building of its kind in Mohave County and the anchor of Oatman's main street. Later renamed the Oatman Hotel, it gathered the town's legends: a bar ceiling shingled with thousands of signed dollar bills, a resident ghost, and the durable local story that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard spent their 1939 wedding night here. The rooms are a museum now, but the building has outlasted the mines that built it.

What the plaque says

This property had been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oatman — steps away
  A gold camp in the Black Mountains that outlived its mines, now run by wild burros — reached by the wildest switchbacks left on Route 66, and named for a history worth telling straight.
• Kingman — 22 mi
  The working hub of Route 66 in Arizona — a railroad town named for a surveyor, Andy Devine's hometown, and the last real stop before the road's two wildest endings.

More markers nearby

• Fairchild, Olive and Oatman (1837 - 1903) — steps away
• Arizona Hotel — steps away
• Oatman Arizona and its Burros — steps away
• Gold Road Mine — 1.4 mi