Hotel Brunswick

Built in 1909 of locally quarried tufa stone, the Brunswick was Kingman's first three-story building and its most ambitious hotel, with fifty small cowboy rooms upstairs and finer accommodations below. John Mulligan and J.W. Thompson put it up during the mining boom, and by local account the young Andy Devine, Kingman's gravel-voiced future character actor, spent part of his boyhood in and around it. After long decline the building came back as one of the town's better restaurants, its stone front still anchoring Beale Street.

What the plaque says

Constructed in 1909, Hotel Brunswick was built by prominent businessmen, John Mulligan and J. W. Thompson. Kingman's first three story building, constructed of local quarried tufa stone, featured 50 cowboy rooms with shared bath facilities, a dining room with service bar. It was reputed for its service using Waterford Crystal and solid brass beds in all rooms. Kingman's Andy Devine spent his childhood in and around the Brunswick. Today the Brunswick is one of Kingman's finer dining establishments.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kingman — steps away
  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.
• Oatman — 22 mi
  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.
• Hackberry General Store — 23 mi
  Looks like a junkyard, is a shrine — the 1934 store an artist brought back from the dead, and the Route 66 stop that inspired Fillmore in Cars.

More markers nearby

• Old Trails Garage — steps away
• Miner's Mineral Monument — steps away
• Depot — steps away
• Central Commercial — steps away