Grand Imperial Hotel, Silverton, Colorado Grand Hotel Thompson Block Imperial Hotel 1883 1219 Greene Street Silverton San Juan Colorado 81433 USA https://www.grandimperialhotel.com/ Website for the Grand Imperial Hotel https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/9ddb26bb-9970-49e1-a801-4a103ac69950 The photo "Silverton, Colorado" by Jasperdo is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 It was originally known as the Grand Hotel and was part of the Thompson Block commissioned by W.S. Thompson in 1882, with construction completed in 1883. According to the website of the still extant hotel, it was the largest structure south of Denver at that time and a "pinnacle of luxury" in the Southwest. Its first floor housed the post office, bank, Bureau of Mines, general store, doctor's office, and Silverton Standard Newspaper. The second floor housed the county and town government. The name of the hotel changed over the years to Imperial Hotel, and then to Grand Imperial Hotel. The hotel was maintained by a long list of owners after W.S. Thomson. It was purchased by Winfield Morton of Texas in 1950, but he went into foreclosure after lavishly refurbishing the hotel (Dave Fishell, Silverton's Imperial Hotel, The Daily Sentinel, March 23, 1980). Longtime Silverton resident Lew Parcell became the hotel's owner-manager in 1958, and kept the hotel until selling out to the Broadmoor Hotel's ownership group in 1963. It was remodeled in 2015, and is now owned by American Heritage Railway Hotels, whose owners are also affiliated with the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad. yes yes