Feb 23, 1972
National Register of Historic Places - Coates House Hotel (New Coates House Hotel)
Statement of Significant: The Coates House Hotel is significant as an example of a late, nineteenth century, luxurious, urban hotel built on a site of a mid- nineteenth century, urban hotel which precepted development of its neighborhood Kansas City. Van Brunt and Howe, architects, designed IVE the building. Physical History The Old Coates House occupied the site of the present Coates House Hotel. This land was part of an approximately 120-acre tract, chates Addition, purchased by Kersey Coates in 1855 and, within the subsequent 20 years, developed by him from a cow pasture into a prosperous residential and commercial district of Kansas City. The commercial hub of the young Kansas City was then about 10 blocks north of the hotel. The original hotel was financed by a company formed for the purpose. 6 It was uncompleted at the time of the Civil War, but the foundations were incorporated into a federal fort. Kersey Coates was one of the promotors of the old hotel, but it was originally completed in the late 1860's under the proprietorship of W.A. Eldridge of Lawrence, Kansas. Eldridge's brother, Thomas A. Eldridge, managed the hotel. The old hotel was five stories high, 100 feet long on the 10th Street side and 142 feet on the Broadway side.9 It was a brick structure with shops at the street level and a mansard roof at the fifth story level. Chimneys emerged between each pair of dormer windows in the mansard. Windows were uniformly placed on the primary façade except in the central bay where two windows were paired on each floor. This feature was carried over into the New Coates House design in the rectangular pulled-out windows on the Broadway façade where the windows are also paired. John Johnson was the architect and contractor for the Old Coates House. Johnson, an Englishman, was also the third elected mayor of Kansas City.
National Register of Historic Places - Coates House Hotel (New Coates House Hotel)
Statement of Significant: The Coates House Hotel is significant as an example of a late, nineteenth century, luxurious, urban hotel built on a site of a mid- nineteenth century, urban hotel which precepted development of its neighborhood Kansas City. Van Brunt and Howe, architects, designed IVE the building. Physical History The Old Coates House occupied the site of the present Coates House Hotel. This land was part of an approximately 120-acre tract, chates Addition, purchased by Kersey Coates in 1855 and, within the subsequent 20 years, developed by him from a cow pasture into a prosperous residential and commercial district of Kansas City. The commercial hub of the young Kansas City was then about 10 blocks north of the hotel. The original hotel was financed by a company formed for the purpose. 6 It was uncompleted at the time of the Civil War, but the foundations were incorporated into a federal fort. Kersey Coates was one of the promotors of the old hotel, but it was originally completed in the late 1860's under the proprietorship of W.A. Eldridge of Lawrence, Kansas. Eldridge's brother, Thomas A. Eldridge, managed the hotel. The old hotel was five stories high, 100 feet long on the 10th Street side and 142 feet on the Broadway side.9 It was a brick structure with shops at the street level and a mansard roof at the fifth story level. Chimneys emerged between each pair of dormer windows in the mansard. Windows were uniformly placed on the primary façade except in the central bay where two windows were paired on each floor. This feature was carried over into the New Coates House design in the rectangular pulled-out windows on the Broadway façade where the windows are also paired. John Johnson was the architect and contractor for the Old Coates House. Johnson, an Englishman, was also the third elected mayor of Kansas City.
Feb 23, 1972
Posted Date
Aug 17, 2023
Historical Record Date
Feb 23, 1972
Source Name
National Register of Historic Places.
