Antlers Hotel (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
also known as The Antlers
The Antlers is a Wyndham Hotel located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It opened in 1967 and is the third hotel of that name on the same site.
The first Antlers Hotel was built in 1883 and burned down in 1898.
The second Antlers Hotel, completed in 1901, was torn down in 1964 to make way for the current Antlers.
Geography
The hotel site is located in the center of downtown Colorado Springs, on Cascade Avenue, just off of Colorado Avenue. It is near Interstate 25. The hotel is near the former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad depot building and Antlers Park and adjacent to the Antlers Garage.
Description
The downtown hotel has 272 rooms, including 14 executive suites, 5 junior suite, city facing governors suite and mountain facing founders suite. Within the hotel is 27,500 square feet of meeting space, an indoor pool, health club, beauty salon, breakfast restaurant, sports bar and lobby bar with 50 beers on tap and 50 wines by the glass.
History
First building (1883–1898)
In June 1883, twelve years after he founded the City of Colorado Springs as a railroad town, William Jackson Palmer built The Antlers hotel.
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