Peoria's Hotels

 

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Abington Hotel: 1983: razed 1984
corner of Abington & NE Adams
submitted by Steve Slaughter

Arlington Hotel in Peoria: late 1800's
submitted by Janine Crandell
 

   
   

City Hotel (by Louis Furst)
Atlas of Peoria County, Illinois (1873)
submitted by Janine Crandell

 

Jefferson Hotel in Peoria: circa 1930
Part of the Underground Railroad.
It was destroyed in 1979 and cleared away to make room for the civic center.
submitted by Janine Crandell

   
   

Lobby of Mayer Hotel: 1937
courtesy of Lake Co. Disc. Museum

Hotel Mayer: 1919
courtesy of Lake Co. Disc. Museum

   
   

Mayer Hotel Fire on 2/13/1963
submitted by Steve Slaughter

Hotel Metzger in downtown Peoria
submitted by Larry Cekander

   
   

Hotel Meyer: 1945
Corner of SW Adams/Oak Sts.
submitted by Steve Slaughter
 

Hotel Pere Marquette in downtown Peoria
Opened 1/5/1927; closed eventually;
then re-opened in 1980's.
submitted by Janine Crandell

   
   

National Hotel in Peoria
at the corner of Hamilton & Jefferson Sts.
Opened in 1883; destroyed by fire on 11/12/1911; submitted by Janine Crandell

National Hotel Fire
Nov. 12, 1911
submitted by E. McKenna
 

   
   

Peoria House: Burned in 1896
submitted by J. Crandell

Century Hotel: SW Adams at Krause
submitted by Steve Slaughter

   
   

Smith's Hotel in Peoria
submitted by Marilyn Warner Williams

 

John Warner Sr. owned the Clinton Hotel from 1849
until 1853, when it was lost in a fire.
submitted by Marilyn Warner Williams

 


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