More Hotels...
From  Shelbyana January 2001  No. 86
Transcribed by Barb Garet.
 
 
So many hotels in and around Shelby County served travelers passing through the area that it was not possible to include accurate and complete information about each one.  Listed below are several for which only the name and scant details were available.  Dates given are those found in reference to the hotel, not necessarily the dates of origin.
 

ANNA HOTEL   1878  Anna  John KRAPP, Prop.

ARMSTRONG HOUSE    1854  Hardin  Also known as BUCKEYE

AVALON HOTEL  1927  Sidney  116 E. Poplar

BARBER BOARDING HOUSE 1882  Sidney  W. Poplar, opposite BURNETT HOUSE

BUCKEYE     Hardin  see ARMSTRONG HOUSE

BURNS HOTEL   1923  Sidney  W. Poplar, Robt. BURNS, Prop.

BUSH HOTEL   1883  Sidney  Location not known

CATHERINE HOTEL  1903  Sidney  “Downtown”   Frank EISENSTEIN, Prop.

CITY HOTEL   1882  Pt. Jefferson Also known as  JEFFERSON  E.O. GUMP, Prop.

FORSYTHE HOTEL  1854-1880 Pemberton G.R. FORSYTHE, Prop.

GRAND HOTEL    Sidney  W. Poplar, “near the P.O.”  A.M. TECKLENBERG, Prop. His mother-in-law, ELVIRA EDWARDS FLINN, died here Jan. 1907.

GRIFFIS HOTEL  1908  Sidney  624 W. Lane

HUFFMAN BOARDING HOUSE 1882  Sidney  Main & Poplar, D.F. HUFFMAN, Prop.

JEFFERSON HOTEL    Pt. Jefferson see CITY HOTEL

KAH HOUSE   1875  Anna  LOUIS KAH, Prop.

MAPLE SHADE HOTEL  1886  east of Sidney THOMAS STEPHENSON, Prop.

MERCHANT HOTEL  1879  Newport J.B. MARSHALL, Prop.

MIAMI INN   1931  Sidney  226 N. Miami (per city directory)

MUMFORD HOTEL    Anna  Owned and operated early by   MUMFORD Family. Son’s  Residence after parents died.  Destroyed by fire in 1885.

REESE HOTEL   1870  Sidney  D.W. REESE, Prop.

SCHUBERT HOUSE  1886  Botkins  FREDERICH SCHUBERT,Prop.

SHELBY HOUSE  1869  Botkins  H.M. LEHMAN, Prop.

STALEY HOUSE  1872  Pemberton JACOB & ELIZABETH STALEY, Props.

STALEY HOUSE  1878  Pt. Jefferson JACOB STALEY, Prop.

TAWAWA HOUSE  1870  Palestine JOSEPH KNOT, Prop.
      (Now Tawawa)

TERRACE HOTEL  1922  Sidney  109 N. Walnut, C.D. SPROUL   (in later years a stag hotel)

VONDRELE HOUSE  1875  Ft. Laramie Main & Sidney Pike. JOSEPH VONDRELE, Prop. Beer Garden adjacent. Music by Silver Cornet Band each Sunday.

WEINGARTNER HOTEL 1908  Sidney  W. Poplar    LEWIS WEINGARTNER, Prop.

WILSON HOTEL  1860  Pemberton JACOB V. WILSON, Prop.  Sold in 1872 to son-in-law JACOB STALEY.                 
 

 
 
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