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.[1]

Gold Dust Hotel
Gold Dust Hotel is located in Kansas
Gold Dust Hotel
Gold Dust Hotel is located in the United States
Gold Dust Hotel
Location402 N. Seventh St., Fredonia, Kansas
Coordinates37°32′02″N 95°49′33″W / 37.53389°N 95.82583°W / 37.53389; -95.82583
Arealess than one acre
Builtc.1884-85
Built byDoney, J.W.
ArchitectBarton, John
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.91001542[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 1, 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.[2]

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.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Martha Hagedorn-Krass (May 16, 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Gold Dust Hotel / Hotel Cunningham / Farris Hotel / Gold Dust Hotel and Apartments / 205-187Q-QQ18". National Park Service. Retrieved November 30, 2017. With 31 photos, most from 1991.