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housed new residents while they looked for permanent housing as well as visitors, and thus was instrumental in the commercial life and growth of the community.
One of the notable owners from a very long list was Douglas “Doug” Andrews, who bought the property from Otto Scholz; records do not indicate the year. Mr. Andrews was quite the entrepreneur, and he and his wife Helen moved to Castle Rock in 1938 when they purchased the Livingston Funeral Home. Doug was appointed deputy coroner under Sam Livingston, elected Coroner in 1940 and held o ce until 1968. While living in Castle Rock, he operated Andrews Flower Shop and Andrews Furniture Store. He was a member of numerous civic organizations and built his funeral
Rock’s historic preservation board which unsuccessfully applied to get the hotel on the list of endangered places in Colorado, was shocked because “I thought it was a shoe-in.” The list is compiled by Colorado Preservation Inc., a nonpro t organization
that provides expertise, grant-writing and other assistance to help save and renovate places on the list.
The building, which is described as a “circa-1872 City Hotel, at 415 Perry St. — a two-story wooden building with peeling paint
and major structural problems, stands out in an area of mainly upscale shops and restaurants.”
Edison further said, “I don’t know of many communities that have two 19 century wooden hotels,” he said of the City Hotel and the Owens House — a nearby former hotel from the same era that has been renovated.
home at the corner of Fourth and
Jerry Streets. He eventually sold
the business to his son in 1976.
Mr. Andrews died in 1996, but the
funeral home still bears his name:
Olinger Andrews Caldwell Gibson Funeral Home. The Castle Rock
Hotel was sold by the Andrews
Family to Robert Duvell in 1981 but little is known about Mr. Duvell, who sold the property to Brad Brown in 1997. Attempts to contact the current owner were not successful.
If only the walls of this old hotel could speak...
A story that was posted in the local newspaper “News-Press” on March 7,
2014, by Virginia Grantier, indicated
that Fred Edison, the chair of Castle
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