Milestones Icon: Hotel Boulderado

The  Hotel Boulderado is the one of the oldest businesses in Boulder and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009.

The hotel opened on New Year’s Day in 1909 at 2115 13th St. Since then, it has served thousands of guests from all over the world including Helen Keller, Douglas Fairbanks, Ethel Barrymore and Louis Armstrong.

The idea for the hotel came in 1905 when city council members felt that Boulder, with a population of 8,000, was not growing fast enough. They issued stock at $100 a share to raise the funds to create what they called “a first-class hotel.”

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