Click to add your description here. The Jerome remained open, the city's only hotel,[15] often becoming by default a boardinghouse. The lobby has been restored to its original appearance.
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After the war, Aspen and its new ski resort became a popular destination, and celebrities vacationing in Aspen like Gary Cooper and John Wayne often stayed at the Jerome, and it became known as a place where they and the locals freely mingled. [6], The building itself is a three-story 12-by-11-bay brick structure, with a small hyphen connecting the main block to a north wing of similar shape and size.
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Bill Murray stayed at the Jerome in 1980 while filming Where the Buffalo Roam, based on Thompson's life, and the nightly parties that started in the J-Bar continued in his suite.
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[28] They hired RockResorts, a subsidiary of Vail Resorts, owner of the Vail Ski Resort, Aspen's principal competitor in that area, to manage the Jerome.
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Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. After one long cross-country skiing exercise over the mountains the soldiers went, still on skis, straight to the Jerome where Laurence Elisha, then the owner, let them spend the night and offered them free drinks. Click here if it has reopened. Max L. is drinking a Juicy East by Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Jim M. is drinking a Juicy Hazy by Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Fred Z. is drinking a 8 Second by Elevation Beer Company at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Fred Z. is drinking an East Coast Juicy IPA by Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Jason W. is drinking a White Rascal by Avery Brewing Co. at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Jason W. is drinking an East Coast Juicy IPA by Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Josh R. is drinking a Lightshine Helles by Wibby Brewing at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Mark R. is drinking a 8 Second by Elevation Beer Company at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Derrick H. is drinking a Lightshine Helles by Wibby Brewing at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Michelle L. is drinking a West Coast Juicy by Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Derrick H. is drinking a West Coast Juicy by Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Kevin V. is drinking an East Coast Juicy IPA by Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Jesse is drinking a Juicy East by Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome, Gyorgy F. is drinking a Snow Drop by Grimm Brothers Brewhouse at J-Bar at Hotel Jerome.
He wanted the city to have a hotel that equaled European ones in its refinements and amenities.
Throughout their training, Elisha offered them a room and a steak dinner for a dollar a night. Smooth round columns on square bases support a molded cornice with metal letters spelling "Hotel Jerome" on the east and west.
[4] Inside, the maple bar was completely restored,[12] and moved along with the front desk to its present location. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast.
It is flanked by two small aspen trees on either side at the street.
[21], As he had done with his other Aspen acquisitions, Paepcke commissioned Austrian Bauhaus architect Herbert Bayer to renovate the Jerome. [15], After the war some veterans of the Tenth returned to Aspen, including Friedl Pfeifer, another Austrian who had been involved in developing the ski resort before the war.
The outbreak of World War II put further skiing development on hold, but not skiing itself as the U.S. Army's Tenth Mountain Division's "soldiers on skis" began training at nearby Camp Hale.
In 1911 ownership passed to local businessman Mansor Elisha, a Syrian American drummer with a travelling band who had stopped in Aspen, taken a job as the Jerome's bartender, and later acquired the hotel from Wheeler,[11] who had by this time long left the city and was unable to pay the taxes as he had gone bankrupt. [3], On the upper floors there are 94 guest rooms. With the development of skiing after World War II, it began to see a new potential realized only with major renovations at the end of the 20th century that made it the upscale hotel it is today. Other amenities included running water and indoor plumbing, steam heat and an elevator.
[27], The new owner applied to the city for an exemption from the real estate transfer tax it charges, on the grounds that it had acquired the property through foreclosure proceedings.
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[27], The buyers were two Chicago-based entities, Elysian Worldwide LLC and Lodging Capital Partners LLC (LCP), headed by David Pisor, owner of the Elysian, Chicago. It had been popularized in the writings of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, himself a transplant to the area who had almost been elected Pitkin County sheriff on a promise to put profiteering drug dealers in the stocks on the lawn of the county courthouse. Sandstone also forms a frieze, interrupted by the windows, below the molded tin cornice. At first it was called Ute City, after the local Native American tribe, but by the early 1880s it had been renamed Aspen, after the trees abundant in the area.[9].
"Everybody getting high on whatever's there, everything, all the time."[25]. Costs escalated to more than twice that, and a month before the hotel was set to open the builders left town unexpectedly, leaving Wheeler owing approximately $150,000 ($4.52million in modern dollars[10]). [35], 18891892: Construction and early boom years, 19461984: Ski resort and celebrity hangout, National Register of Historic Places portal, List of reportedly haunted locations in the United States, National Register of Historic Places listings in Pitkin County, Colorado, "National Register of Historic Places nomination, Hotel Jerome", Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, "Hotel Jerome at 120yrs Young: The history and highlights of Aspen's most cherished landmark, 12 decades in the making", "The Wheeler-Stallard House: An Interpretive History, 1888-1969", "Laurence Elisha, your personal hotelier", "Skiing Comes to Aspen: Visionaries and Teachers", "Flashback: Drugs and CultureAspen's Storied History", "Hotel Jerome escapes paying six-figure tax bill", "Aspen cries foul against Hotel Jerome in tax fight", "Family rents out Aspen's Hotel Jerome for bat mitzvah", "A step back into the 1880s at Aspen's Jerome", U.S. National Register of Historic Places, History of the National Register of Historic Places, List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state, National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places, University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hotel_Jerome&oldid=1096370616, Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado, National Register of Historic Places in Aspen, Colorado, Buildings and structures in Aspen, Colorado, Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 4 July 2022, at 02:03. Bar Food, Lounges, American, The White House Tavern ($$$)
[3], Windows on the second story's central projection are one-over-one double-hung sash windows with transoms and sandstone sills and lintels. [4], At the third story the four-pane center windows, also recessed, have a similar round-arched treatment as the flanking second-story windows. In addition to movie stars of the era like Gary Cooper, Lana Turner and John Wayne, intellectual Mortimer Adler, helping to lead the Aspen Institute in its early days, could be seen lounging around it.
It became a popular for the Tenth's trainees on weekend leave, since Leadville was off-limits and Denver was a lot farther away.
It is a brick structure built in the 1880s that is often described as one of the city's major landmarks, its "crown jewel". $$ Earned the Land of the Free (Level 72) badge! Tavern, Bar, Burgers, Sandwiches, Ribs dry, overcooked. [12] He was able to add new entrances to the storefronts, however.
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Japanese, Sushi At the time of its opening, on the night before Thanksgiving,[12] it had 90 rooms (or 76, according to some accounts[4]), which rented for up to $4 ($100 in modern dollars[10]) a night.
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[30], In January 2012 the entire hotel was rented out for a weekend for a bat mitzvah.
[5] Some of them, such as the Pitkin County Courthouse two blocks to the east, Aspen City Hall to the southeast, Collins Block and Wheeler Opera House to the south along Mill Street, have been listed on the Register themselves. "It was his office", one bartender from the time recalled.
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[11] The structural system was restored. The slight grade to the north exposes their basements slightly. Earned the Middle of the Road (Level 62) badge!
They, too have sandstone sills and a sandstone course runs around the building at the arches' springline. First, try refreshing the page and clicking Current Location again.
[27] Later that year, Jerome brought in Auberge Resorts to replace Rock as the hotel manager. If this restaurant is open or has reopened, just let us know. Nowadays, J-Bar (short for Jerome, naturally) is one of the best and buzziest aprs-ski spots in towna casual, leave-the-furs-at-home scene where it's okay to order a couple rounds of drinks (and spicy edamame while you're at it) and relax in the low-back leather chairs. $$ - Moderate ($11-$25)
When John Gilmore bought it in 1968 and reduced it to 34 rooms,[4] he rented them for a mere $5 ($39.00 in modern dollars[10]) a night.
Aspen's favorite watering hole for well over a century, the J-Bar (short for "Jerome Bar") beckons locals and visitors with its authentic saloon ambiance and lively yet casual atmosphere.
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At the front of Hotel Jerome, a 19th-century classic in the heart of downtown Aspen, is the bar where Hunter S. Thomson's liver used to come for regular workouts.
"[34], "Fancy digs aren't my priority when I travel," wrote Phil Marty of the Chicago Tribune, "but then you walk into something like Room 302 and think, 'Well, maybe I should spend more time in my room.'"
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Around the turn of the 20th century two further renovations took place.
He had a few minor complaints: at the time (2007) the hotel did not have free Wi-Fi, the room's light switch could not function as a dimmer, and the hotel would stock the mini-bar only on a guest's request.
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Bad HarrietCraft cocktails and small plates are aptly titled after other strong women in history. [4], Its south (front) facade has a wooden hood, topped with a balcony balustraded in turned wooden spindles and supported by narrow iron columns, covering the sidewalk at the centrally located recessed main entrance.
Bill Murray partied there while portraying Thompson in a film, and the J-Bar also inspired a song by Glenn Frey, who had gone there often with his bandmates while a member of The Eagles. Bayer's main change on the outside was to paint the exterior a light grey color, with blue accents on the window arches in a color called "Bayer blue",[22] a change that was not popular with most longtime residents, who preferred the original brick.
He was impressed by the potential he saw, and began investing in the community, completing a smelter started earlier so that ore did not have to be taken back to Leadville.
The city responded that the foreclosure had been a fraudulent conveyance in order to avoid a tax bill estimated at around a half million dollars. The first, in 1998, used photographs over a century old to restore the J-Bar's original appearance.
The first floor is also home to several meeting spaces, including the 3,450-square-foot (321m2) Grand Ballroom in the northeast corner of the rear block, the only above ground ballroom in Aspen, with 16-foot (4.9m) ceilings.
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Pfeifer also convinced him of the area's skiing potential, and Paepcke invested the money in the Aspen Skiing Company that Pfeifer had founded. They were attracted to Aspen by its natural beauty, skiing and remoteness from larger population centers.