Boulder
Hotel Boulderado
Opened on New Year's Day 1909 with money from Boulder stockholders, around a stained-glass ceiling; its original Otis elevator still runs.
- Built
- 1909Opened January 1, 1909 after a New Year's Eve 1908 gala; the fifth floor was finished a few months later.
- Style
- Italian Renaissance and Spanish Colonial Revival
- Architect
- William Redding & Son
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Rooms
- 160
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Historic Hotels of America member
The story
Boulder’s Commercial Association raised the money from local stockholders beginning in 1905-06, and the Boulder Hotel Company chose a design by William Redding & Son built around a central court under an Italian stained-glass ceiling. The name combines ‘Boulder’ and ‘Colorado’. The hotel retired its debt in 1925, struggled through the Depression, and opened the Catacombs bar in 1969. Renovations in the early 1980s and annexes by Junge Reich Magee brought it to 160 rooms, and its original Otis elevator still runs.
Good to know
- Elevator
- Address: 2115 13th Street, Boulder, CO 80302
Sources (4)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.