Samuel’s Hotel
Samuel’s Hotel
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The Samuels Hotel
The Samuels Hotel was built by Henry Floyd Samuels in May of 1908. It became one of the busiest hotels in the Silver Valley. This five-star, five-floor hotel sat at the corner of Cedar Street and Seventh Street. It quickly became the largest and finest hotel in all of Idaho, with more than 150 rooms, 25 luxury suites included, and its modern commodities. Guests could get a shave and a haircut at the barber on the ground floor, find something to drink at the Metals Bar (also downstairs), and take the elevator to the upper floors if they didn’t want to walk up the stairs. The hotel was demolished in 1975 and became the Harry Magnuson Park.
Interesting Facts
Modern Luxuries
Each room in the Samuels had long distance telephone, hot and cold running water, electric light, steam heat, open nickel plumbing, and brass beds.
features
The ground floor included a coffee shop, restaurant, banquet room, lounge, barber shop, the Metals bar, and beauty shop. It also had French plumbing and a birdcage elevator with an operator.
Metals BAr
The Samuels was the original location of the Metals Bar. The current Metals Bar located just down the street from this site is named after the original bar.
The Rossi case
Wallace Mayor Herman Rossi was arrested for murder in 1916 after he shot Clarence “Gabe” Dahlquist in the lobby of the Samuels Hotel.