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Subject: Re: [MOJASPER] Connor Hotel
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:04:36 EST


In a message dated 02/18/2004 8:40:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
Does anyone know what was where the Connor Hotel was before it was built? I
have a small pitcher, maybe a creamer, that my Great, great, grandfather got
there. He was Jacob Ashelman b abt 1860? My grandmother wrote on the bottom of
it that Grandad Ashleman got this when they built the Connor Hotel in Joplin.
I was thinking they tore an older hotel down to make room for the Connor?
According to Joplin, a Pictorial History by Kay Kirkman and Roger Stinnett
page 39; "The Joplin Hotel at the northwest corner of Fourth and Main was built
by J. H. McCoy in 1875 and was the center of the city's social life. The cost
of the building and furnishings was $46,000. Kerosene lamps gave way to gas
jets in 1877, followed by incandescent lamps in 1887. The three-story brick
building had fifty rooms in addition to the office, dining room, and parlors. The
Joplin Hotel was torn down in 1906 and the Connor Hotel built on the site."
Page 85; "The Connor Hotel was built on the northwest corner of Fourth and Main
in 1906. It replaced the old Joplin Hotel and was named for Tom Conner, its
builder. The stone for the hotel came from the quarries of the Spring River
Stone Company at Carthage; the rotunda and stairway were built of white Italian
marble. The cost of the hotel was $750,000. In 1978 while the Connor was being
prepared for demolition, it suddenly collapsed."


Bob
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