Prescott
Hotel Vendome
Built in 1917 with 31 rooms and 16 shared baths, two blocks from Courthouse Plaza; now 20 rooms with private baths, some with claw-foot tubs.
- Built
- 1917Built 1917 with 31 rooms and 16 bathrooms (hotel); overhauled 1983.
- Type
- Boutique hotel
- Rooms
- 20
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Inside a National Register historic district
The story
The Vendome was built in 1917 to meet Prescott’s demand for housing, with 31 rooms and 16 shared bathrooms; the Prescott Journal-Miner called it ‘the classiest place in town’. The lot had earlier held the Victorian house of county supervisor William Hutchinson, demolished between 1901 and 1910. The building was overhauled in 1983, the year it was listed on the National Register. Today it has 20 rooms with private baths, some with vintage claw-foot tubs.
The ghost story
Local tale holds that the hotel is haunted by Abby Byr, a tuberculosis patient said to have died in her room in 1921 with her cat, Noble, after her husband left on an errand and never returned.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Good to know
- Address: 230 S. Cortez St., Prescott, AZ 86303
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.