Tabor Grand Hotel - Boards 5.19.15

Horace A. W. Tabor
In 1885 the Tabor Grand Hotel opened as an elite and prestigious hotel, many famous guests have visited or stayed including “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” numerous sitting Presidents and Doc Holiday.
During the silver mining boom of the 1880’s, money was pouring into the City of Leadville, and businessmen wanted the town to have a hotel that was high class. In the early 1880’s when the Leadville Hotel Company came up short-funded for plans to build a first-class hotel, local silver baron and former Kansas farmer, Horace W. Tabor supplied the money and the local hotel subsequently bore his name. Completed in 1884 and opened in 1885, The four-story Tabor Grand was developed with 117 rooms with only the finest amenities from steam heat and a formal dining room, to a passenger elevator and wine cellar. Extravagance became the byword, evidenced by the hotel’s lobby floor, which was inlaid with Silver Dollars.
The Kitchen Brothers acquired the hotel in 1887 and renamed it the Kitchen Hotel. The hotel flourished for a while, hosting dignitaries and celebrities such as “The Unsinkable” Molly Brown, Doc Holiday and President Benjamin Harrison.
In 1891 The Hotel was sold to an investment company and renamed the Hotel Vendome. The hotel struggled into the twentieth century before falling into disrepair in the 1980’s. In the late 1980’s Horace Tabor’s once extravagant hotel was in jeopardy of being demolished to make room for a parking lot. An investor with a passion for the Tabor agreed to step in and restore the decaying hotel. The day after signing the contract, during a heavy rainstorm, the northwest corner of the building collapsed.
In 1993 the then, vacant hotel, was renovated to become 37 affordable apartments for the working town of Leadville.
In 2014, Overland Property Group – (Leawood, Kansas) purchased the historic building and invested over $9 million dollars, ($6 million in construction hard-costs), to fully renovate and restore the interior and exterior of this prominent piece of Colorado and national history.
1884 - Pre-Opening
1891 - President Benjamin Harrison
1900’s 1960’s
TABOR HISTORY
130 YEARS OF TRADITION
1980‘s