Antlers Hilton Hotel

The Antlers is a Wyndham Hotel located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It opened in 1967 and is the third hotel of that name on the same site.

The first Antlers Hotel was built in 1883 and burned down in 1898.

The second Antlers Hotel, completed in 1901, was torn down in 1964 to make way for the current Antlers.

The hotel site is located in the center of downtown Colorado Springs, on Cascade Avenue, just off of Colorado Avenue. It is near Interstate 25. The hotel is near the former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad depot building and Antlers Park and adjacent to the Antlers Garage.

The downtown hotel has 292 rooms, including seven executive suites. Within the hotel are an indoor pool, health club, day spa, beauty salon, restaurant, and a pub.

In June 1883, twelve years after he founded the City of Colorado Springs, William Jackson Palmer built The Antlers hotel. It was named for the large elk and deer racks that Palmer installed in the hotel. It had 75 unique guest rooms, a music room, Turkish Bath, children's playroom, billiards room, and a barber shop. The hotel had gas lights, steam heat, hot and cold water, and a hydraulic elevator. It was unusually elegant for a hotel in the west. Palmer contributed $125,000 (equivalent to $3,212,946 in 2016) towards the cost of its construction.

Antlers Hotel built in 1883 in downtown Colorado Springs

Antlers Hotel fire in 1898 in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Northwest view of Antlers Hotel that was completed in 1901

It burned down on October 1, 1898, when a fire was started at the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway freight depot Palmer rebuilt the hotel in 1901 with Italian Renaissance architecture, designed by the Varian and Sterner architectural firm. It was an elegant hotel with commanding views of Pikes Peak, 200 rooms, a restaurant, the Rose Ballroom, fireproof walls, tapestries, and mosaic floors. Presidents who visited the hotel include Theodore Roosevelt, who gave a speech off a hotel balcony in 1901, and Warren G. Harding, William Henry Harrison, and William Howard Taft. William Jackson Palmer died in 1909, after which Spencer Penrose attempted to buy the hotel but could not reach an agreement. Instead, he built The Broadmoor. The second Antlers Hotel building was torn down after September 20, 1964, when the last guest checked out.

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