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The Hotel Connor was built in 1898 and is located on the intersection of Main Street and Jerome Ave. [29] [31] Jennie's Place was a brothel built in 1898 and owned by Madam Belgiam Jennie. [29] [32] The Jerome City Hall built c. 1890 and located on Main Street. [29]
Corner of Main Street and Jerome Avenue in Jerome. Connor Hotel, left. Mine Museum, right. Following a brief post-war downturn, boom times returned to Jerome in the 1920s. Copper prices rose to 24 cents a pound in 1929, [44] and United Verde and UVX operated at near capacity. [45]
Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County, Arizona. It was founded in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley to take advantage of copper deposits discovered in the 1870s whose extraction was made profitable by the arrival of a railroad spur nearby.
The Jerome Grand Hotel is well noted to be the highest commercial building in the Verde Valley, being at a height of 5240 feet above sea level. The hotel was built as a Mission Revival Style of architecture and was the last major building to be constructed in Jerome. The building was considered by many a masterpiece of architecture because, not ...
Connor was born in Jerome, Arizona in 1903. [1] [2] His parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Connor, built the historic Hotel Connor in 1898.[3] [4] The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1898, [5] [6] [7] and then shortly after being rebuilt, was gutted by another fire in 1899, after which it was rebuilt again.
The Lady in Red is said to frequent the Spirit Room of the Connor Hotel in Jerome, Arizona. [19] In San Antonio, Texas at the St. Anthony Hotel, reports of a Lady in Red have held that she enters the women's restroom, clicks her heels against the marble, and sits in a stall before vanishing. [20]
Connor Hotel in Jerome. Jennie Bauters (1862–1905) operated brothels in the Territory from 1896 to 1905. She was an astute businesswoman with an eye for real estate appreciation, and a way with the town fathers of Jerome regarding taxes and restrictive ordinances. She was not always sitting pretty; her brothels were burned in a series of ...
Little Daisy Hotel is a 12,398-square foot hotel [1] located on 3.45 acres of land in Jerome, Arizona.It is best known for having been originally built as lodging to serve miners working in the Little Daisy mine beginning in 1918 before being converted to a private residence.