The Hotel Colorado :: Glenwood Springs, Colorado Enter The Hotel Colorado and travel into a time of late-19th-century elegance and charm. Silver baron Walter Devereux fashioned the hotel after Italy’s Villa de Medici.  It was considered a “Marvel of the Age.” The hotel was the first west of the Mississippi to be electrically lit. The courtyard fountain sprayed more than 100 feet into the air and a dedicated railroad spur was built for the private train cars of Hotel Colorado’s visiting


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