Robbins Hotel
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Robbins Hotel | |
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The former hotel in 2011 | |
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| Location | AL 265, Beatrice, Alabama |
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| Coordinates | 31°44′9″N 87°12′34″W / 31.73583°N 87.20944°WCoordinates: 31°44′9″N 87°12′34″W / 31.73583°N 87.20944°W |
| NRHP Reference # | 87000858[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 26, 1987 |
The Robbins Hotel was a historic hotel building in Beatrice, Alabama. The nucleus of the building started out as a private, one-story home with six rooms, built circa 1840. A second floor was added sometime later. The house was converted to a hotel between 1906 and 1910.[2]
The hotel comprised a two-story, hipped-roof main block that measures approximately 40 by 50 feet (12 m × 15 m), with a 40-foot (12 m) long one-and-a-half-story dining room wing with an end-gable roof and dormer windows to the southeast. The main block features full-width two-story porches at the front and rear. Architectural historians considered it to be a good example of a small privately owned southern hotel, which opened as a direct result of the completion of the railroad connecting west Alabama and the coast at the end of the 19th century.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1987.[1] The building burned on October 12, 2012.
References
- 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 Marilyn B. Sullivan (May 15, 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Robbins Hotel" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved April 1, 2013. See also: "Accompanying photos" (PDF).
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