Aspen · Downtown Aspen – Main Street
Hotel Jerome
Jerome B. Wheeler's 1889 silver-boom hotel, leased by the Aspen Institute in the 1940s, with the Bad Harriet speakeasy downstairs.
- Built
- 1889Completed fall 1889 by Jerome B. Wheeler with 76 rooms and 15 baths (NRHP nomination).
- Style
- Early Commercial (brick)
- Architect
- George W. Myers (Detroit)
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Area
- Downtown Aspen – Main Street
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
Jerome B. Wheeler, an Aspen mining investor who also built the town’s Wheeler Opera House and a bank, built the hotel in 1889 at the height of the silver boom. It opened with 76 rooms, a bar, restaurant, billiard room, ladies’ waiting room and shops. In the 1940s the Aspen Institute leased it for program participants, cut the rooms to 39 and opened the pool. John T. Gilmore reopened the then-closed hotel in 1968 with 34 rooms, and it now runs under Auberge with a Michelin Key and the Bad Harriet speakeasy downstairs.
Good to know
- Parking: on-site paid
- Pets welcome
- Address: 330 East Main Street, Aspen, CO 81611
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.