Main Street looking east (from Hotel Dalton)
Image, JDL.000188
- Scope and Content
- In 1864, business man George H. Lathrop came to jackson, starting that year purchasing a site on Union Block at Main street, building the three-story hotel using Jackson-made brick. It had a very busy and well-enjoyed hall called Union hall that saw great usage after and before the civil war. For the next fifteen years the hotel would enjoy good business, but in 1884 a fire started burning down most of the hotel. It remained damaged until "Uncle Dan" Hibbard bought it and remodeled it, using as many of the original bricks as possible. In 1904, brothers Tom and Eddie Dalton bought the hotel and gave it's name. They added two stories and did extensive remodeling. However by the 1960s the hotel was in deteriorating condition and in 1964 the city bought the building for $32,000 as a part of the urban renewal project.
- Date
- 20th century (Created)
- Rights
- Copyright undetermined
- Related Collection
- Jackson Postcard Collection
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