Businesses - Hotels & Boarding Houses

Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin

Business

Location

Year(s)

Notes

American House Main & Court Sts. Aft. 1844 - 1868 hotel; burned in 1868
Cronin Hotel ----- ? - 1973 - ? hotel
Grand Hotel ----- 1881 - 1929 built by David Jeffris, proprietor; operated by McNeil Hotel Co. in 1925; burned in 1929; 1888 photo from Picturesque Janesville
Hotel London opposite Myer's Grand Opera House 1893 - present
Fred R. Jones, proprietor
Hyatt House ----- 1857 - 1867
A. Hyatt Smith, proprietor; burned in 1867
Janesville Stage House SE corner of Main & Milwaukee Sts. 1838 - ? second hotel in city; Charles Stevens, proprietor
Merchant's Hotel 24 E. Milwaukee St. before 1892 became Ogden House
Monterey Hotel site of Grand Hotel Aft. 1929 - ? -----
Myer's House SE corner of Main & Milwaukee Sts. 1861 - 1958 hotel; on site of old Janesville State House; Peter Myers, proprietor
Ogden House 24 E. Milwaukee St. [Ryan Building] 1853 - 1892 - ?
originally a commercial building, it was converted to a hotel after Stevens House burned in 1853; Mrs. E. T. Horne, proprietor in 1892; was Merchant's Hotel
Riverside Hotel ----- ? - 1913 - ? -----
Rock County House Main & Court Sts. 1844 - ? hotel; later called the American House; Volney Atwood, prop.
Stevens hotel Janes' Tavern 1837 - 1838 first hotel in city; Charles Stevens, proprietor
Stevens House Milwaukee & Franklin Sts. 1848 - 1853 Charles Stevens, proprietor; burned in 1853
Streeter, A. (Mrs.) ----- ? - 1854 - ? boarding house
Union House ----- ? - 1908 - ? G. Spencer Walrath, landlord

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