Hassayampa Inn

After a decade of planning, Prescott's business leaders raised the money for a modern hotel to catch the growing tide of auto tourists, and broke ground in 1927 on the site of the old Conner Hotel, which had burned in 1923. The El Paso firm of Trost and Trost, working with local architect Chris Totten, designed the Hassayampa Inn in a warm Mission and Spanish Revival style, and the Ramey Brothers built it. It opened that November as Prescott's first community-financed hotel and still takes guests beneath its painted lobby ceiling and neon roof sign.

What the plaque says

After ten years of planning, community leaders of Prescott finally raised sufficient funds to build a modern hotel catering to the auto tourist in downtown Prescott. On February 28, 1927, at the site of the former Conner Hotel which had burned in 1923, ground was broken for Prescott's first community hotel. Designed by Trost and Trost of El Paso in collaboration with Prescott architect Chris Totten, the Mission and Spanish Revival style hotel was built by the Ramey Brothers and opened November 20, 1927.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prescott — steps away
  Arizona's first territorial capital — Whiskey Row, the courthouse square, and a mile-high pine town
• Jerome — 25 mi
  The billion-dollar copper camp clinging to Cleopatra Hill — now the largest ghost town in America
• Tuzigoot — 30 mi
  A hilltop Sinagua pueblo over the Verde, dug out of the ground in the Depression

More markers nearby

• Site of the Territorial Courthouse — steps away
• Doc Holliday in Prescott — steps away
• Prescott, Territorial Capital — steps away
• Whiskey Row — steps away