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Landmarks
Hotel Jerome
330 E. Main St.
National Register
3/20/1986, 5PT.113.2
T
he three-story red brick
hotel occupies a prominent
corner location in down-
town Aspen. Completed in 1889,
the building features numerous
round arch window openings
and an unusual parapet, with
brick work forming four rows
of small square panels. The
construction of the hotel was
financed by Jerome B. Wheeler,
one of Aspen’s most notable en-
trepreneurs, during the town’s
early period of development.
Many original interior appoint-
ments remain in the first-floor
level. In 1945, the exterior was
painted a pale gray with blue
trim when Walter Paepcke
commissioned Herbert Bayer to
oversee a remodeling project on
behalf of the Aspen Co. A subse-
quent project in the mid-1980s
included removal of the paint.
Hotel Jerome
Courtesy History Colorado