Description: Baby Doe Tabor's Antique Russell & Erwin window brass or bronze sash locks / latches. Shown here in the R&E 1875 catalog. Provenance: obtained from Colorado estate sale, sells as found, labels original as found. Latches function properly on the mount.******The history of the building:In 1880 the Windsor Hotel opened on the NE corner of 18th and Larimer as the first true luxury hotel in Denver. City boosters saw the hotel as a symbol of the city's rising prospects with its five-stories and 400 guestrooms. Many local and national figures were entertained here. One of the Windsor’s owners, silver king Horace Tabor, housed mistress and soon-to-be second wife, Lizzie (Baby Doe) McCourt, in the hotel’s premiere luxury suite. Supposedly, Baby Doe was the only woman allowed to use the underground tunnels, for obvious reasons. The legendary triangle involving Horace, his first wife Augusta, and Baby Doe, later became Colorado’s best-known love story, the source of several books and later an opera.The fabulous Tabor suite boasted a bathroom with a gold leaf bathtub, said to be the first in Denver. The hotel may not have had modern plumbing when it was first built, since Baby Doe had special maids to carry in her bath water. Her 1,500 lb. bed and matching dresser were hand- carved walnut with a marble fireplace in the living room. Baby Doe’s fancy work chair in the sitting room survived long enough to be featured in a 1932 movie loosely based on the Tabors’ lives, called Silver Dollar.Horace Tabor lost his fortune in the Silver Crash of 1893 and died in one of the hotel’s smaller rooms. Former friends who had ignored him when he went broke spent a fortune on flowers for his funeral.Over the decades, the grand old lady of Larimer Street entertained innumerable celebrities, including Sir Henry M. Stanley, Mark Twain, John L. Sullivan, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Marie Dressler, Sarah Burnhart and Lillian Russell. Four presidents stayed at the hotel – U.S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. The portly President Taft made headlines when he got stuck in Baby Doe’s tiny bathtub (she was living elsewhere at the time) and required rescuing by bellhops.In 1960 the hotel fell to the wrecking ball to make way for a parking lot. Many of the Windsor treasures had been sold out in before the last owner, Arthur Garrett of the Garrettt Lumber and Wrecking Co., acquired title to the property. A grand auction in late 1959 disposed of the remainder. Although her gold-leaf bathtub was long gone, scores of bargain hunters paid $25 for fineries including a baby grand piano ($325) and a life-sized statue ($10). ******Antique items will have the marks expected with vintage - please examine the photos closely to best assess condition. Each photo and computer may vary in color representation. Please message with any questions. Ships to the United States only. Payment thru Ebay only. Be sure to view our other antique hardware as well. USPS delivery.
Price: 575 USD
Location: Coaldale, Colorado
End Time: 2024-12-11T13:46:44.000Z
Shipping Cost: 9.9 USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type: window sash latch
Decade: Pre 1890
Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
Material: Brass, Bronze
Maker: Russell Erwin
