HOTEL DE PARIS
Hotel — Georgetown, Colorado
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/hotel-de-paris-georgetown-colorado/

The 1875 French hotel—the mining camp’s luxury.

Hotel de Paris is a hotel in Georgetown, Colorado. The 1875 French hotel—the mining camp’s luxury. The name the accounts keep returning to is Louis Dupuy. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still takes guests. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

Louis Dupuy was not his name. He was born Adolphe François Gerard in France, squandered an inheritance, washed out of the seminary, the culinary school, the newspaper business (accused of plagiarism in New York), and both the French and American armies — he deserted the U.S. Army at Fort Russell, Wyoming. He fetched up in the Colorado silver camps as a camp cook and courier, and when a mining explosion at Silver Plume mangled him saving other men's lives, the town of Georgetown took up a collection. He used it to buy a bakery and turn it into a French inn.
The Hotel de Paris opened in 1875 in the middle of a mining camp of thirty-five hundred people — oysters and fine wine at eighty-five hundred feet, a first-class French restaurant run by a man who decided whether you were worth feeding. 'This house is my own,' Dupuy said, 'and if I want guests, I invite them in.' The crème de la crème of the frontier made the trip up Clear Creek Canyon for his table. He died of pneumonia on a Sunday morning in October 1900, in Room 13 of his own hotel.
The hotel survived almost completely — ninety percent of the original furnishings are still in place, preserved by the Burkholder family who ran it until 1939 and then by the Colonial Dames who bought it in 1954. It is now a National Trust site and one of the most intact nineteenth-century interiors in the American West — a Frenchman's reinvention, frozen exactly as he left it.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Hotel de Paris is the archive's reinvention file — a hotel built by a deserter under a fake name in a silver camp, kept so perfectly that Dupuy's rooms are still furnished as they were when he died in one of them.
A hotel where the owner died in Room 13 keeps his rooms — the file's suggestion being that Dupuy never left because Dupuy, for the first time in his life, had built something he didn't want to abandon.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: Louis Dupuy is reportedly seen. Hotel de Paris, a hotel in Georgetown, Colorado, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. 'Hotel de Paris' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.
  source: Hotel de Paris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_de_Paris_Museum)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures in the hotel. Hotel de Paris, a hotel in Georgetown, Colorado, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. The account appears in 'Hotel de Paris'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: Hotel de Paris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_de_Paris_Museum)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1875] Opened 1875; the museum is documented. The hotel in Georgetown, Colorado has its past on record — this entry belongs to that verified layer. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. The detail is preserved in 'Hotel de Paris'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Hotel de Paris — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_de_Paris_Museum

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