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Weatherford Hotel / Motel in Arizona
John Weatherford built his first hotel at this site in 1897. The original structure housed a general store on the first floor and living spaces for the Weatherford family upstairs. Realizing that tourism would offer an economic boom, in March of 1899, Weatherford began construction of a three-story modification of his building and there was a grand opening for the Weatherford Hotel on New Year’s Day 1900. For many years, the Weatherford Hotel was the most prominent of the hotels in Flagstaff, entertaining guests such as artist Thomas Moran, publisher William Randolph Hearst, and western author Zane Grey. Grey’s novel “The Call of the Canyon” was written in an upstairs room, now part of the Zane Grey Ballroom.
