Elton Hotel
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Elton Hotel
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South elevation and partial east elevation, 2009
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 Location within Connecticut
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| Location | Waterbury, CT |
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| Coordinates | 41°33′24″N 73°2′28″W / 41.55667°N 73.04111°WCoordinates: 41°33′24″N 73°2′28″W / 41.55667°N 73.04111°W |
| Built | 1904 |
| Architect | Griggs & Hunt |
| Architectural style | Second Renaissance Revival, Beaux-Arts |
| Part of | Downtown Waterbury Historic District (#83001280) |
| NRHP Reference # | 83001282 |
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| Added to NRHP | June 30, 1983 |
| Designated CP | August 3, 1983 |
The Elton Hotel is located on West Main Street in downtown Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. It is an early 20th-century building by local architects Griggs & Hunt in the Second Renaissance Revival architectural style.
It was built in 1904 to replace a lavish hotel lost in a fire that destroyed much of downtown Waterbury two years earlier. To the surprise of its investors, mainly prominent local businessmen, it turned a profit within a year of its opening. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a guest, and James Thurber is said to have written "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", during a stay of his. On the eve of the 1960 election, John F. Kennedy gave an early-morning speech from the hotel that was credited with helping him win Connecticut. It continued to be used as a hotel until the early 1970s.
In the late 1970s, when the Downtown Waterbury Historic District was created, the hotel building was included as a contributing property. In 1983, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places individually. Since then it has been converted into professional office space and senior housing.
The hotel is located on the north side of West Main, at the east corner with Prospect Street. It occupies a lot of a quarter-acre, about a thousand square feet (93 m2). On the opposite corner is Immaculate Conception Church, a Baroque Revival Roman Catholic church built in the late 1920s. To the west, on the corner with North Main Street, is another, smaller office building of similar vintage. Across the street is Waterbury Green, the two-acre (8,100 m2) downtown park at the center of the city. The surrounding neighborhood is similar high-density urban mixed-use development, with many other buildings dating to the same period and earlier, reflecting contemporary styles.
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