Robbins Hotel
National Register of Historic Places

Robbins Hotel

Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama
Listed
August 25, 1987
Type
Building
Period
Early Republic
Ref No.
87000858

About this property

The Robbins Hotel was a historic hotel building in Beatrice, Alabama. The nucleus of the building started out as a private, one-story home with six rooms, built circa 1840. A second floor was added sometime later. The house was converted to a hotel between 1906 and 1910. The hotel comprised a two-story, hipped-roof main block that measures approximately 40 by 50 feet (12 m × 15 m), with a 40-foot (12 m) long one-and-a-half-story dining room wing with an end-gable roof and dormer windows to the southeast. The main block features full-width two-story porches at the front and rear. Architectural historians considered it to be a good example of a small privately owned southern hotel, which opened as a direct result of the completion of the railroad connecting west Alabama and the coast at the end of the 19th century. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1987. The building burned on October 12, 2012.

Location

Beatrice, Monroe County, Alabama
31.73592, -87.20954

Categories

TRANSPORTATION
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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When was Robbins Hotel listed on the National Register?

Robbins Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1987.

What type of historic resource is Robbins Hotel?

Robbins Hotel is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Robbins Hotel?

The period of significance for Robbins Hotel is recorded as the early_republic era, specifically around 1840.

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