Bisbee ยท Main Street & Old Bisbee
Copper Queen Hotel
Built by Phelps Dodge by 1902 to lodge investors visiting its mine; the hotel and Wikipedia call it Arizona's longest continuously operated hotel.
- Built
- 1902Constructed 1898-1902 by the Phelps Dodge Corporation (Wikipedia; hotel says 1902). The 1980 district inventory says 'Built 1898… extensively remodeled in 1905; four story… 44 rooms'.
- Style
- Italianate influence (district inventory)
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Area
- Main Street & Old Bisbee
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
The Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company (Phelps Dodge) built the hotel between 1898 and 1902 to lodge investors and dignitaries visiting its Bisbee mine. It is often called Arizona’s longest continuously operated hotel. The hotel says its guests ranged from Theodore Roosevelt to John Wayne. In April 2024 it was listed for sale at $12.5 million as a 48-room hotel; no sale has been reported.
The ghost story
The hotel calls itself Arizona's most haunted hotel and says the spirits of Julia Lowell and a ghost child named Billy are said to roam its halls alongside spectral miners; it books Room 315 as the Julia Lowell room and Room 412 as 'Billy's Room'.
Source: copperqueen.com
Good to know
- Breakfast: included
- Address: 11 Howell Ave., Bisbee, AZ 85603
Sources (4)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.