HOTEL de PARIS Chronology

  • October 14, 1844
    		• Adolphe Francois Gerard was born in Alencon, France
  • 1869
    		• Arrived in Denver with a new name--Louis Dupuy--and took a job with the Rocky Mountain News
  • ca. 1870
    		• Louis Dupuy, arrived in Georgetown where he took employment as a miner.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 1878
    		• Dupuy purchased the building
    Sophie Gally moved into the hotel and became housekeeper.
  • 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 laundery 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.
  • 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.
  • 1887
    		• Flagstone was laid in front of the hotel.
  • 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.
  • by 1890
    		• Dupuy made an addition to the kitchen and expanded the dining room.
  • 1892
    		• The McClellan Opera House, on the corner, and the building in between adjacent to the hotel burned.
  • 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.
  • October 7, 1900
    		• Louis Dupuy died of pneumonia after a 5 week bout, and left the hotel to Sophie Gally.
  • February 1901
    		• Sophie Gally died and left the hotel to relatives in France.
  • 1903
    		• Mrs.Sarah Burkholder purchased the hotel from the heirs of Sophie Gally.
  • 1905
    		• A large veranda was added to the west side of the hotel.
  • 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.
  • 1932
    		• Burkholder's daughter, Hazel McAdams inherited the hotel after her mother's death and continued leasing it through 1939 as a boarding house.
  • 1942
    		• A fire gutted the long one-story building at the rear of the property.
  • 1954
    		• The hotel was purchased by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Colorado
  • 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.
  • 1970
    		• The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places
  • 1973-78
    		• Major restoration projects were undertaken at the hotel.
  • 1978-present
    		• Ongoing general upkeep and repairs; continual research into more accurate historic representation of the Louis Dupuy era for the hotel.

    Thanks to the Long-Hoeft Architects for information from their Historic Structure Report.

    Hotel de Paris Museum | Hours/Admission | Louis Dupuy | Sophie Gally | Rooms
     Chronology | Related Sites