VENUE REPORT HISTORIC HOTELS
THE REST IS HISTORY
Look to the future by booking an event at one of Colorado’s hotels that’s rooted in the past. B Y S H E L L Y S T E I G
THERE IS THAT SAYING, “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” Sometimes that’s a good thing, especially when it’s Colorado’s historic hotels we’re talking about. For more than a century, these venerable properties have hosted presidents, royalty, prima donnas and groups. T H E B R O W N PA L A C E H O T E L & S PA , Denver The Brown Palace, built in 1892, has been visited by nearly every president since Theodore Roosevelt. The 241-room hotel offers 25,000 square feet of meeting space for groups from 15 to 800. The 5,800-square-foot Grand Ballroom is adorned with imported African mahogany
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paneling and Czechoslovakian crystal chandeliers and can be divided into two 2,900-squarefoot rooms. The Brown’s meeting facilities include 18 separate rooms of various sizes. T H E OX F O R D H O T E L , Denver Denver’s first hotel opened down the street from busy Union Station in 1891. Listed on
the National Register of Historic Places, the 80-room Oxford features 10,000 square feet of function space. The restored carriage house next door features 8,600 square feet of the meeting options. The Oxford’s Grand Ballroom and Oxford Theatre have theaterstyle capacities up to 240 and 150. “At the Oxford, you get an immediate
P H OTO S : T H E B R OW N PA L AC E H OT E L & S PA ; (O P P O S I T E ) T I M R O M A N O ; T H E OX F O R D H OT E L ; T H E C L I F F H O U S E AT P I K E S P E A K
One of several suites at The Brown Palace Hotel & Spa, which dates back to 1892
