{"id":1813,"slug":"hotel-colorado-glenwood-springs-colorado","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Hotel Colorado is the Grande Dame that housed a president and a mobster — Walter Devereux's $850,000 Italianate palace opened June 1893 in the town still called Defiance, the 185-foot fountain and the indoor waterfall built to pull the elite to the hot springs. Roosevelt made it the Little White House of the West in 1905, three weeks of bear hunting and state business; the legend says the maids stitched him a bear from scraps when the hunt came back empty and Alice named it Teddy.","The hotel's other guests were rougher — Diamond Jack Alterie ran the Prohibition speakeasy out of it, Capone came through the special door installed for the mob, and the Navy took it for convalescence in the war. The teddy bear story is disputed — Mississippi claims it too — but the fountain and the Victorian bones are real, the Grande Dame of the Rockies still taking guests a hundred thirty years on.","The file keeps the Hotel Colorado: the silver baron's palace, Roosevelt's three weeks, the teddy bear legend, and the Capone door.","Hotel Colorado is the archive's Glenwood file — the president's hunting lodge and the mobster's speakeasy in the same lobby."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Hotel Colorado is the archive's Glenwood file — the 1893 palace, the Roosevelt stays, and the Prohibition mob.","A hotel that hosted both Roosevelt and Capone keeps its contradictions — the file's suggestion being that the Grande Dame's hold is the range: the fountain court where a president hunted bears and a gangster ran a speakeasy, the toy and the tommy gun under one roof."]}],"name":"Hotel Colorado","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["HAUNTED_LOCATION"],"groups":["hauntings","lodging"],"desc":"Historic hotel with reported auditory anomalies.","full_desc":"A hotel in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Hotel Colorado is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic hotel with reported auditory anomalies. It sits in the archive under haunted locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.","address":null,"city":"Glenwood Springs","county":null,"state":"Colorado","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":39.547132,"lon":-107.342556,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Pass 1 source-grounded discovery; independent historical verification, coordinates and current access still pending. Confidence measures attribution quality, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":43.1,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.6,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":942,"type":"CRYING","description":"Colorado Tourism Office recounts a woman’s cries and unexpectedly flickering lights. The Glenwood Springs hotel's reports are the kind old lodgings accumulate — footsteps after hours, presences in rooms, the house working the night shift. 'Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Heard rather than seen: the report that keeps the file open.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.6,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters","url":"https://www.colorado.com/articles/haunted-colorado-hot-spots-ghost-hunters","publisher":"Colorado Tourism Office","type":"TOURISM","authority":3},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Colorado Tourism Office recounts a woman’s cries and unexpectedly flickering lights. Hotel Colorado, a hotel in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. 'Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters'. The retelling is the record now — the legend metabolized the facts long ago.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters","url":"https://www.colorado.com/articles/haunted-colorado-hot-spots-ghost-hunters","publisher":"Colorado Tourism Office","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters","url":"https://www.colorado.com/articles/haunted-colorado-hot-spots-ghost-hunters","publisher":"Colorado Tourism Office","type":"TOURISM","authority":3}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Hotel Colorado","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Colorado","desc":"Historic hotel in Colorado, US","extract":"Hotel Colorado is an 1893 Italianate structure in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, United States, and one of the oldest hotels in Colorado.","img":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Hotel_Colorado_April_2012.jpg/330px-Hotel_Colorado_April_2012.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","score":108,"lat":39.55086111,"lon":-107.32469444},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}