Cottage House Hotel

Cottage House Hotel
	Cottage House Hotel
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	25 N. Neosho St., Council Grove, Kansas
Coordinates	38°39′42″N 96°29′23″W / 38.66167°N 96.48972°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1871-72
Built by	Joe Axe, Marion Scholes, E. Pattison
Architectural style	Italianate, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.	88001172
Added to NRHP	August 4, 1988

The Cottage House Hotel is a historic hotel at 25 N. Neosho Street in Council Grove, Kansas. The original hotel was built in 1871-72 around a small house built in 1867; the two-story Italianate hotel was originally a boarding house with a small number of renters. Banker Lewis Mead and his first wife Sarah Marks Mead bought the hotel in 1879; after Sarah died in 1886, Lewis remarried her sister Josephine, who was responsible for enlarging and promoting the hotel. The hotel under Josephine's management was known as a popular destination for businessmen and salesmen, including many of Lewis' business associates; it did not advertise to the traveling public, and it earned a reputation for feeling welcoming and more like a private home than a commercial business. Many members of the large Marks family also lived in or near the hotel. The hotel expanded several times to fit its growing clientele; its 1898 addition is notable for its Queen Anne design with a square tower on the roof. Josephine Marks Mead operated the hotel until her death in 1932; the building has passed through several owners since then, though it has mostly remained an operating hotel.^[2]

The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 4, 1988.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ Hagedorn, Martha (May 23, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Cottage House Hotel" (PDF). Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved February 18, 2023.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

[2] Hagedorn, Martha (May 23, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Cottage House Hotel" (PDF). Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved February 18, 2023.

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