National Register of Historic Places

Gold Dust Hotel

Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas
Listed
November 1, 1991
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
91001542

About this property

The Gold Dust Hotel, located at 402 N. Seventh St. in Fredonia, Kansas, was built in c.1884-85. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is a three-story brick Italianate-style building. It has also been known as Hotel Cunningham, as Farris Hotel, and as Gold Dust Hotel and Apartments. When it was completed in 1885, the Wilson County Citizen asserted:The Gold Dust is without doubt as fine a hotel as can be found in Southern Kansas. It would be splendid hotel in a city of ten or twenty thousand inhabitants. It is not only a grand building externally but contains the most modern appointments and conveniences of first-class institutions of this kind and is furnished in all respects in a most elegant and comfortable manner. Its ventilation is perfect and not an important essential feature for a number one hotel has been omitted.

Location

402 N. Seventh St.
Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas
37.53405, -95.82615

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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 Gold Dust Hotel listed on the National Register?

Gold Dust Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 1, 1991.

What type of historic resource is Gold Dust Hotel?

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

What is the period of significance for Gold Dust Hotel?

The period of significance for Gold Dust Hotel is recorded as the industrial era.

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