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Louis Dupuy |
1844 |
Adolphe Francois Gerard was born in Alencon, France
on October the 14th. |
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| 1869 |
Arrived in Denver with a new name--Louis Dupuy--and took
a job with the Rocky Mountain News. |
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| ca. 1870 |
Louis Dupuy, arrived in
Georgetown where he took employment as a miner. |
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| 1873 |
Dupuy was injured in a mine accident when he took the force
of an explosion as he pushed his partner out of the way. In appreciation
for his bravery, the town took up a collection that allowed Dupuy to begin
his business.
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Delmonico Bakery |
1875 |
Dupuy rented the building that had housed the Delmonico
Bakery and opened it as the Hotel de Paris. The entire first floor was
taken up with restaurant and kitchen. |
Sophie Gally
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| 1878 |
Dupuy purchased the building.
Sophie Gally moved into the hotel and became housekeeper. |
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| 1881 |
Dupuy purchased 1/2 of the lot to the west and constructed
a one story building across the back (south) of his lots. This building
included an outhouse.
Louis completed a laundry in the rear of the hotel. It isn't known if
this was in the back of the kitchen or in the new rear structure. |
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Sample Bedroom |
1882 |
Dupuy constructed the two story addition to the west which contained two sample rooms on the first floor and four hotel bedrooms on the second.
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Early Photo of Hotel |
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1887 |
Flagstone was laid in front of the hotel.
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1888-90 |
Dupuy purchased the 1/2 lot to the east and added to the
hotel with quarters for himself on the first floor and two large hotel
bedrooms above. He extended the rear one-story building to the east property
line.
Dupuy unified the appearance of the original building and additions with
a new facade. |
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Dining Room |
by 1890 |
Dupuy made an addition to the kitchen and expanded the
dining room. |
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| 1892 |
The McClellan Opera House, on the corner, and the building
in between adjacent to the hotel burned. |
Early Electric Lights |
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| 1892-93 |
A new roof structure was added over the three part original. Electricity and electric lights were installed at the hotel. The statue
of Justice was placed on the parapet. Dupuy stuccoed and painted his newly
exposed west wall to match the hotel's other walls and painted the large
hotel sign with American and French flags. |
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Louis & Sarah's Gravestone |
1900 |
Louis Dupuy died
on October the 7th of pneumonia after a 5 week bout, and
left the hotel to Sophie Gally. |
Sarah Burkholder (in center) |
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| 1901 |
Sophie Gally died
in February and left the hotel to relatives in France.
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| 1903 |
Mrs. Sarah Burkholder purchased the hotel from the heirs
of Sophie Gally. |
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Hotel With Added Veranda |
1905 | A large veranda was added to the west side of the hotel. |
 Go to Find-Grave for Sarah Harrison Burkholder James Burkholder (husband) Ned Burkholder (son) Hazel Burkholder (daughter) |
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| 1910 | Improvements to the steam heating system were installed in the hotel. | |||
| 1919-1930 | Burkholder leased the hotel to various proprietors who ran it as a hotel and boarding house. |
Hazel Burkholder McAdams |
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| 1932 |
Burkholder's daughter, Hazel McAdams inherited the hotel
after her mother's death and continued leasing it through 1939 as a boarding
house. |
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| 1942 |
A fire gutted the long one-story building at the rear of the property.
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Hotel Annex |
1954 |
The hotel was purchased by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Colorado. |
Colonial Dames of America in Colorado Logo |
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| 1955 |
The rear building was rehabilitated as a meeting place
for the Colonial Dames and for the display of exhibits. The outhouse was
replaced by a restroom.
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Books for Research |
1970 |
The building was placed on the National Register of Historic
Places. |
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| 1973-78 |
Major restoration projects were undertaken at the hotel.
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| 1978-present | Ongoing general upkeep and repairs and continual research into more accurate historic representation of the Louis Dupuy era for the hotel. | |||
