Brown's Hotel Torn Down

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Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/18/2010 at 22:59:44

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, March 24, 1898

Brown’s Hotel Torn Down

The project of tearing down the old frame building known as “Brown’s Hotel,” and which stood in the alley at the rear of the residence of Mrs. Schaub, has been under consideration for several weeks and was accomplished the latter part of last week. The history of this building is so well known and has been so much written of that a further recital here is unnecessary. It was built by the notorious W. W. Brown, in 1837 and was the main part of the old, original Brown’s Hotel, in which the “Bellevue War” took place three years later. It was constructed of solid brick masonry, with hewn oak studding and butternut weatherboarding, and although having defied the storms of over sixty years, would have remained standing for many more had it not been torn down. It was unquestionably the oldest frame building in the state.