<Li> <P> Music room looking south </P> </Li> <P> Music room looking south </P> <P> The Stanley Hotel National Register Historic District contains eleven contributing buildings including the main hotel, a concert hall, carriage house and The Lodge, a smaller bed - and - breakfast originally called Stanley Manor . The buildings were designed by F.O. Stanley with the professional assistance of Denver architect T. Robert Wieger, Henry "Lord Cornwallis" Rogers, and contractor Frank Kirchoff . The site was chosen for its vantage overlooking the Estes valley and Long's Peak within the National Park . The main building is a steel - frame structure with wood cladding resting upon a granite masonry foundation . Wood for flooring, clapboarding and finishing was brought from Kirchoff's Denver Lumberyard and the Bluff City Lumber Company of Pine Bluff, Arkansas . The Griffith sawmill near Bierstadt Lake and Stanley's own Hidden Valley lumber operation, located in the future national park, supplied framing material . The materials were brought to Lyons, Colorado by rail and thence to Estes Park by mule - drawn wagon . Simultaneously, Stanley oversaw the construction of a hydroelectric power plant which brought electricity to Estes Park for the first time in 1909 . Stanley claimed that his hotel was the first to be powered entirely by electricity from the lighting to the kitchens . Water was supplied by the Black Canyon Creek which was dammed in 1906 . </P> <P> The style of the campus is so - called Colonial Revival . Although rare in the western United States, F.O. Stanley chose the Colonial Revival for its fashionable popularity in New England where he had already designed his own home and a social club in the style . The hotel's clientele would presumably, like the Stanleys, have identified the style with New England respectability and sophistication in contrast to the rusticity of the surrounding town . At one time, Stanley planned to build another, more economical hotel in Estes Park as well as a headquarters and residence for the superintendent of the Rocky Mountain National Park in the same style, to harmonize with his grand hotel . While the forms and layouts of the buildings are suited to their modern uses, their ornamentation exhibits the stylistic hallmarks of Georgian or Federal architecture from the staunch symmetry of the south elevation to the cupola, dormers, Palladian windows, side - and fan - lights, scroll brackets and "swan's neck" pediments that articulate the exterior . </P>

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