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HPS-192 - Hotel Casa Loma

An article appears on stockholders of Tempe Land and Improvement Company meeting. A new hotel is planned on the old site plus a Kingsbury lot. The hotel is to be ready for the fall season.
- Tempe News, 28 Mar 1896, 3:2

George N. Gage and others have started subscription drive to sell stock in new hotel. Tempe Land & Improvement Co. bought $4000 and W. J. Kingsbury followed with $700. Expect to begin construction in a week or so.
- Arizona Republican, 24 May 1899, 6:1

The rock is being hauled on the grounds for the new hotel and the people of Tempe are smiling. The want of a good hotel has been felt ever since the old one was burned, several years ago. The new one will be built on the same ground.
- Arizona Republican, 25 May 1899, 6:1

Cap Price did the excavating for the foundation of the new hotel yesterday. [In excavating, a Mexican found a gold watch belonging to Mr. Shift, lost during the fire, from World's Fair, which had his name engraved on it.]
- Arizona Republican, 1 Jun 1899, 6:1

List of stockholders in the new hotel, incl. George N. Gage ($4,000) and W. J. Kingsbury ($750). Many others invested a total of $13,150.
[list of stockholders was published frequently, starting on 26 May 1899]
- Arizona Republican, 1 Jul 1899, 6:1

The brick work of the new hotel is nearly completed and in a few days work will begin in the roofing.
- Arizona Republican, 24 Jul 1899, 6:1

Kingsbury is also building a 4-store building north of the new hotel to the reading room - will be of pressed brick and plate glass - already rented.
Mr. Kingsbury is an expansionist in [the] truest sense, having displayed indefatigable energy in getting our new hotel under construction . . .
- Arizona Republican, 26 Jul 1899, 6:1

The new hotel at Tempe will have cement tilings on the first floor and in the toilet rooms. Not similar have yet been in the Salt River Valley . . . Mr. Joseph Griffin of New York City sells them.
- Arizona Republican, 8 Aug 1899, 6:1

Tempe's new hotel is fast nearing completion. Verandas are being put on all sides of the building. It is expected that the hotel will be opened on November 1st.
- Arizona Republican, 19 Aug 1899, 6:1

Work on steam connections throughout the hotel building is nearly completed. The large boiler has been placed in the cellar, and the steam heating system . . . will be most complete. The screen doors and windows are being hung and the many delicate finishings are being put in. The grad stairway, a thing of beauty in itself, is being finished. It will only be a short time before the building will be ready for occupation.
- Arizona Republican, 21 Nov 1899

Finishing work on the hotel is progressing rapidly. The furnishings from the east are expected in a few days.
- Arizona Republican, 7 Dec 1899

A heavy bluegrass sod is being successfully started in the narrow yard north of the new hotel.
- Arizona Republican, 1 Jan 1900

C. E. Attwood of New Jersey yesterday closed a contract for the lease and mangement of Tempe's new hotel. G. R. Thornton, had agreed to lease it, failed to comply with terms and was canceled. Attwood is purchasing and shipping fixtures and furnishings and will have the hotel open in 30 days - manager is experienced - Tempe hopes this hotel will make city "best winter resort area in the west."
- Arizona Republican, 13 Jan 1900

Our new hotel has again been leased to C. E. Attwood of New Jersey (Tempe Hotel and Restaurant).
- Tempe News, 20 Jan 1900

This morning W. J. Kingsbury received from Mr. Atwood, the lesee of the new hotel, a letter relating that he had purchased all the furniture therefor and that the same would be at once shipped to Tempe. There is every reason for believing that the hotel will be open and ready for business by the first of March.
- Tempe News, 20 Jan 1900, 3:3

Ad for Casa Loma on page 8.
- Arizona Republican, 24 Jan 1900

New hotel furnishings are on way and in a few days hotel will be fitted up.
- Tempe News, 6 Feb 1900, 6:1

New hotel landlord with furnishings will arrive tomorrow and hotel will open within a week. Horse-powered pump has been throwing water into the large tank for the past few days.
- Tempe News, 16 Feb 1900

New Atwood hotel will be opened March 15. Everything . . . will be in first-class and modern style.
- Arizona Republican, 24 Feb 1900

Floors receiving heavy coat of oil and tanks, wash tubs, ice boxes . . . in construction. Children's playground and adult garden being constructed on north and cool side of hotel.
- Arizona Republican, 27 Feb 1900, 6:1

Wanted: Quail & Wild Ducks
Wanted - One hundred quail & wild ducks at Hotel Atwood, Tempe on or before Dec. 15
Call and arrange for same. C. E. Atwood.
- Tempe News, 30 Nov 1900

The Hotel Atwood will open up under new management next week.
- Tempe News, 1 Mar 1901

Proprietor Kuehle of the Hotel Atwood is entertaining quite a distinguished guest today in the person of William McKinley, Washington, D.C., who registered at that popular hostelry this morning.
- Tempe News, 15 Mar 1901, 3:4

The dining room of the Hotel Atwood has been closed.
- Tempe News, 22 Mar 1901, 3:4

Article entitled "'Papa' Atwood in Trouble." Reprint of article from Los Angeles Times about the arrest of C. E. Atwood (proprietor of the Atwood Hotel in Tempe) on a bogus check charge. Mr. Atwood was apparently quite a smooth swindler.
- Tempe News, 13 Sep 1901, 3:4

Long article about C. E. Atwood's hearing and guilty plea in California. Mr. Atwood is sentenced to 4 months in the Los Angeles County jail. Apparently Mr. Atwood defrauded many up and down California.
- Tempe News, 27 Sep 1901, 3:4

The name of the Hotel Atwood has been changed to Hotel Casa Loma.
- Tempe News, 1 Nov 1901, 3:1

The Good Templars' mum social at the Casa Loma last night was a very enjoyable affair.
- Tempe News, 1 Nov 1901, 3:4

The dining room of the Casa Loma is now in charge of Manuel Mazon. . .
- Tempe News, 17 Jan 1902, 4:1

The new tennis court east of the Casa Loma was laid out today. Fred Wright was supervising engineer.
- Tempe News, 24 Jan 1902

C. E. Atwood, formerly manager of the Casa Loma, has gotten out of his recent troubles in California and has a situation in one of the fashionable restaurants in San Francisco, as head waiter, and is doing well.
- Tempe Daily News, 8 Sep 1902, 4:1

The Ladies Choral Society met for rehearsal this afternoon at the parlors of the Casa Loma.
- Tempe Daily News, 14 Apr 1903, 4:1

The Casa Loma is being renovated and repainted from top to bottom.
- Tempe News, 1 Jul 1904, 3:1

The Casa Loma dining room is to be reopened under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Moore, late of Seattle, Washington.
- Tempe News, 28 Oct 1904, 3:1

Tom Ping has leased the Casa Loma dining room . . .
- Tempe News, 22 Sep 1905, 3:1

A side entrance from 4th Street into the Casa Loma dining room is being made.
- Tempe News, 14 Dec 1906, 3:2

Tempe at last has a first class eating house. F. C. Wilson, a caterer of much experience, has taken charge of the dining room at the Casa Loma, and he promises in every way to merit the patronage of the public. He desires that the people of Tempe will feel perfectly at home in his dining room and that they will by their patronage and good will help him to make a success of his venture.
- Tempe News, 18 Jan 1907, 3:2

H. H. Griest is about to open a Real Estate and insurance office in the southeast corner of the Casa Loma, . . ."
- Tempe News, 10 Jul 1908, 3:1

The roof of the Casa Loma is being repainted.
- Tempe News, 1 Jan 1909, 3:1

The Casa Loma dining room was opened today under the management of W. M. McClintock, and experienced restaurant man from Los Angeles.
- Tempe News, 15 Jan 1909, 3:1

Tempe has a new real estate firm. Messrs. Harris, Hitchcock & Prince have opened an office in the Casa Loma. The firm name will be Harris & Company.
- Tempe News, 12 Feb 1909, 4:2

W. J. Kingsbury has placed a row of comfortable benches along the south side of the Casa Loma. The local branch of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Sons of Rest have already filed a squatters claim on the benches and will probably tender Mr. Kingsbury a vote of thanks for his kindness.
- Tempe News, 14 Jan 1910, 3:1

A beautiful set of office furniture of the mission type arrived this morning for the Southside Realty Company which will open offices in the Casa Loma. Richard Schwappe is at the head of the new organization.
- Tempe News, 14 Jan 1910, 4:1

The benches on the sunny side of the Casa Loma have been removed. This action was necessary to prevent a conflict between the Sons of Rest and the Never-Sweats, a kindred organization, each of whom claimed the first right to the benches.
- Tempe News, 28 Jan 1910, 4:1

Messrs. Heim & Beil, the proprietors of the Casa Loma restaurant, have leased the Owl restaurant also and on the first of May they will open the place as a two-bit house. The gentlemen are giving spendid satisfaction at the Casa Loma and their patrons say that the meals are the best that have ever been served in Tempe.
- Tempe News, 29 Apr 1910, 3:1

One of the weddings referred to in last evening's news took place in Phoenix this afternoon, the contracting parties being Joseph Heim, one of the proprietors of the Casa Loma dining room, and Mrs. Derwae who at one time conducted a dining room in the Miller flats.
- Tempe News, 3 Jun 1910, 3:2

Among other attractive features Tempe can now boast of having the best hotel in the Salt River Valley. Messrs. Heim and Beil who took charge of the dining room about a month ago, are making a splendid success in that most important department and the hotel is now beginning to be what its original promoters intended that it should become - a good advertisement for the town . . .
- Tempe News, 3 Jun 1910, 4:1

Mr. and Mrs. George N. Gage have returned from California, and have taken apartments at the Casa Loma for the winter.
- Tempe News, 25 Nov 1910, 3:2

For some time a deal has been pending whereby Fred Marsh secures a long-time lease on the Casa Loma Hotel. It is reported that the papers were signed this afternoon. Mr. Marsh will at once reopen the dining room and make other changes whereby he hopes to add to the popularity of the place and increase its business. The Casa Loma is one of the best appointed hotels in the southwest and properly conducted will be a great advantage to the town and a source of profit to the management. Everybody who knows Mr. Marsh believes that he is the man to successfully swing the proposition.
- Tempe News, 9 Dec 1910, 3:2

The bar fixtures for the Casa Loma are here and are being placed in position.
- Tempe News, 30 Dec 1910, 3:1

Col. W. F. Cody, known all over the world as Buffalo Bill, spent last night at this place, a guest at the
Casa Loma . . .
- Tempe Daily News, 30 Jan 1911, 4:1

Short article about A. Nielsen & Co. real estate offices opening in Casa Loma Block. The Offices were previously occupied by Southside Realty.
- Tempe Daily News, 14 Feb 1911, 4:1

This morning all business was suspended at the former Casa Loma saloon. The doors were locked and all the employes were paid off.
- Tempe Daily News, 7 Jun 1911, 4:1

At 9:30 this morning Tempe entered the dry zone - A telephone message from Phoenix conveyed the information that Judge Kent had rendered his decision and that it sustained the legality of the late local option election at this place. F. R. Marsh, proprietor of the Casa Loma bar at once closed and locked the doors of the saloon and kept them so for half an hour. When the place was reopened, it was placarded with signs "No Intoxicating Liquors Sold Here." Asked as to his plans for the future, Mr. Marsh said that he has not definitely decided on any except that he expects to give up the Casa Loma on the 15th of this month, to which date his rent has been paid.
- Tempe News, 9 Jun 1911, 3:1

Article on the closing of the Casa Loma. Mr. Fred Marsh, who ran the hotel and bar, made the decision after being forced to close the bar.
- Tempe Daily News, 15 Jun 1911, 4:1

Tempe's saloon cases were disposed of in Justice Carr's court yesterday when F.R. Marsh appeared and plead guilty to twenty-four charges of selling liquor in violation of the local option law. The judge figured up that nine dollars for each and every offense would be necessary to appease the injured dignity of the commonwealth and Mr. Marsh concluded that it was worth that much to him to be through with the affair so he drew his check for $216 and the matter was finally settled then and there.
- Tempe News, 16 Jun 1911, 3:1

The Casa Loma closes tonight as Mr. Marsh feels unable to continue with it under the present conditions. One thing Mr. Marsh has done in this connection has been to show how to run a first class hotel at Tempe. Under his management, the place has in every way been creditable, up to date, and in keeping with a wide-awake town. Its closing, or even relapsing to what it was formerly is as hard blow as Tempe has had in a long time.
- Tempe News, 16 Jun 1911, 3:2

The Casa Loma, with the exception of the dining room and saloon, is to be kept open for the accomodation of the public, Mr. Marsh having made satisfactory arrangements to this end with Mr. Kingsbury.
- Tempe News, 17 Jun 1911, 4:1

Mrs. H. D. Madison of Los Angeles has taken over Fred Marsh's lease on the Casa Loma, and is now
in charge . . .
- Tempe News, 14 Jul 1911, 3:2

Miss Bernadette Brown is the new land-lady at the Casa Loma. She entered upon her duties this morning.
- Tempe News, 11 Aug 1911, 3:2

Miss Zora Staggs has opened ice cream parlors in the Casa Loma Dining room. Donefrio's ice cream served.
- Tempe News, 14 Jun 1912, 4:1

A general cleanup is going on about the Casa Loma, which greatly improves the apearance of that corner.
- Tempe News, 25 Oct 1912, 3:2

The restaurant at the Casa Loma opened yesterday.
- Tempe News, 1 Oct 1915, 4:1

Advertisement:
Casa Loma For Rent -
The Casa Loma, one of the best equipped hotels in the southwest, for rent upon splendid terms. Apply to W. J. Kingsbury.
- Tempe News, 18 Aug 1916, 3:3

Mrs. Abel of Phoenix is now in charge of the Casa Loma.
- Tempe News, 25 Aug 1916, 4:1

The water tank and tank house back of the Casa Loma Hotel is being removed.
- Tempe News, 8 May 1918, 3:2

L. S. Barker has purchased the Casa Loma Cafe . . .
- Tempe News, 31 Dec 1919, 3:2

Article about William Bloys American Legion post meeting at Casa Loma. Relates post backing of community projects and a permanent home for post.
- Tempe News, 28 Jan 1920, 3:1

R. J. Walker, and experienced hotel man from Texas, has leased the Casa Loma Hotel. The place is to be completely refitted and placed in first class condition.
- Tempe News, 4 Feb 1920, 3:2

The Casa Loma restaurant has changed hands.
- Tempe News, 11 Feb 1920, 3:1

William J. Harley has sold his restaurant in the Casa Loma to W. M. Bonghart.
- Tempe News, 17 Nov 1920, 3:3

K. T. Hyder, Notary seq[?], shows his address as Casa Loma Hotel.
- Tempe News, 17 Jan 1923, 3:5

The Union stage office at this place is about to undergo a number of repairs.
- Tempe News, 17 Oct 1923

The Union stage office in the Casa Loma is being remodeled. The ceiling is being torn down and will be replastered, and together with the walls will be tinted. A fine office will be made of it.
- Tempe News, 24 Oct 1923

Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Norris of Phoenix, the present owners of the Casa Loma Hotel, placed the management of the hotel in the hands of Mr. and Mrs. Turner, who have been stopping at this place for about a year or so.
- Tempe News, 10 Oct 1925, 3:2

Under management of Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Turner the Casa Loma Hotel will soon be a valuable asset to Tempe. They are thoroughly renovating the place and are getting things in shape to accomodate the influx of people who come here to escape the rigors of the north and eastern winters. The Turners have had previous hotel experience, and judging from the way they are taking hold at the Casa Loma, we are sure that it will not be long before it will be one of the most popular stopping places in the valley and a long felt want in Tempe will be filled. Mr. Norris, the owner of the hotel, is to be congratulated upon his selection of Dr. and Mrs. Turner to run the place for him.
- Tempe News, 17 Oct 1925, 3:1

The Casa Loma will keep open house Saturday and there will be a Radio dance program in the lobby. Everybody is invited.
- Tempe News, 7 Nov 1925, 3:3

Mrs. E. W. Turner passed away . . . this morning . . . For a year or so [she] has had charge of the Casa Loma Hotel. She had many friends among our people who will be shocked by her sudden passing.
- Tempe News, 29 Jan 1927, 3:3

TEMPE MEN BUY CASA LOMA HOTEL
The most important transaction that has taken place in Tempe in many years was the taking over Saturday of the Casa Loma hotel by Frank Fogal, Sam J. Carter, and Wayne Ritter. The Casa Loma, at one time known from coast to cioast as the "Sunshine Hotel," because of its policy not to charge its guests for days on which there was no sunshine, is to be restured [sic] to its former popularity and will again become one of Tempe's most valuable assets . . .
The new owners will at once begin an elaborate system of improvements in the hotel and its surroundings. The big dining room in the hotel, which some years ago was cut up into apartments, will be restored. An elevator and steam heating plant will be installed and the hotel will be refurnished from top to bottom.
There will be a garage for the use of the guests of the hotel, and on Fourth Street, west of the hotel, it is planned to clear several lots of the old buildings now occupying them and convert the grounds into a park with fountains, flowers, shade and stretches of grass, for the use of the hotel's patrons. No expense is to be spared in making the hotel attractive to the best class of tourists and there can be no doubt as to the financial success of the enterprise.
The Casa Loma is an ideally located hotel, and no other town in the valley has the advantages in its surroundings that Tempe possesses, in the buttes, the river and its proximity to the wonderful Papago Park, a large and attractive section of which undoubtably will soon be transferred to the town. The reopening of the Casa Loma on the lines proposed by Messrs. Fogel, Carter and Ritter, means the attraction to Tempe of hundreds of desirable people, and the Tempe News believes that it will mark the beginning of a new era of progress and development for the town.
- Tempe News, 12 Feb 1927, 1:1

Curbing is being laid on the north side of Fourth Street, besides the Casa Loma.
- Tempe News, 30 Apr 1927, 3:1

The Ditch on Fourth Street, next to the Casa Loma, is being tiled.
- Tempe News, 14 May 1927, 3:1

The lots back of the Casa Loma hotel are being cleared of brush and rubbish.
- Tempe News, 14 May 1927, 3:3

The old buildings back of the Casa Loma are being torn down to make way for the improvements which are to be carried into effect this summer.
- Tempe News, 21 May 1927, 3:1

The work of remodeling the Casa Loma hotel is now going on in earnest. This morning D. H. Nicholas, the contractor, put a force of twenty men at work. Scaffolds are being erected along the Mill Avenue and Fourth Street fronts of the buiding, and for the next three months the work will be pushed at top speed in order that the hotel may be ready to accomodate fall and winter guests.
- Tempe News, 18 Jun 1927, 3:1

An all-steel fire escape is replacing the old wooden structure on the west end of the Casa Loma.
- Tempe News, 6 Aug 1927, 3:3

The scaffolding is being removed from the Fourth Street front of the Casa Loma, disclosing the beauty of the building, whis [sic] is one of the finest hotel structures in the entire southwest.
- Tempe News, 17 Sep 1927, 3:3

It is rumored that work is to be resumed on the Casa Loma Hotel next week to put on the finishing touches to the beautiful hostelry, which will be opened to the public in the near future. The new furniture to be installed in every room in the hotel is expected to arrive in a few days.
- Tempe News, 7 Jan 1928, 1:3-4

The trees along the south side of the Casa Loma have been neatly trimmed.
- Tempe News, 21 Jan 1928

Improvements are being made on the grounds surrounding the Casa Loma Hotel.
- Tempe News, 11 Feb 1928

A new sign has been placed in front of the Casa Loma. The lots in the rear of the hotel are being given a clearing and undesirable portions of the building north of the hotel are being torn down.
- Tempe News, 25 Feb 1928, 3:3

CASA LOMA SOON TO OPEN
Work is being rushed on the Casa Loma and it is expected that the hotel will be open to the public in about ten days. S.C. Prideaux has been engaged as manager. He is an experienced hotel man, having had charge of the Lewis & Clark hotel at Mandan, North Dakota for nine years just prior to coming to Tempe.
The Casa Loma will be one of the most up to date hotels in the state. An attractive feature will be the big glassed-in porches. These have been fitted with hard wood floors and may be used for dancing when desired. Shower baths have been installed on every floor, and there are many other features for the comfort and convenience of guests.
- Tempe News, 3 Mar 1928

The stage office which has for a number of years been located in the Casa Loma hotel, was moved today into the old Farmers and Merchants Bank building, now owned by the town. Dilworth Baird has been appointed agent for the stage company at this place, Mr. Joyce having been given a place in one of the company's offices in California.
- Tempe News, 4 Mar 1928

Mrs. Mary E. Gigner [?] has resigned her position as manager of the Casa Loma and has gone to El Paso to visit her son, C. M. Cunningham, who is in the employ of the Southern Pacific.
I. H. Swisher of Phoenix is the new manager of the Casa Loma. He is a courteous and affable gentleman and will undoubtably add to the popularity of the hotel.
- Tempe News, 19 Jan 1929, 3:2

The Casa Loma garage has changed hands. Newton Fogal, who has been operating the place has leased it to Lee Melton of Chandler.
- Tempe News, 16 Feb 1929, 3:2

Preparations are underway to open the Casa Loma dining room. It is understood that responsible parties have leased the dining room and expect to have it open by Sept. 15.
- Tempe News, 24 Aug 1929, 3:2

Things are being readied for the opening of the Casa Loma dining room and coffee shop. Furniture and equipment is being installed and it is expected to have the place open for business by the end of next week if not sooner.
- Tempe News, 7 Sep 1929, 3:2

Harry Pearl, genial manager of the Menhennet Theater at Tempe has taken an apartment at the Casa Loma.
- Tempe News, 9 Nov 1929, 3:2

Every once in a while there is talk of developing the recreation possibilities of the Tempe Butte. This time rumor has it that Ezra Thayer of Phoenix, one of the owners of the Casa Loma Hotel, is back of such a movement. The town owns the butte but undoubtably arrangements may be made whereby responsible parties could secure a long time lease on it for recreation purposes. The building of the new highway bridge here will be an added incentive to the development of the butte park. It is hoped Mr. Thayer is behind such a movement, for he can carry it through.
- Tempe News, 4 Jan 1930, 3:1

A row of date palms has been set out along the south side of the Casa Loma Hotel. The palms come from Tom Goodwin's orchard at Tempe.
- Tempe News, 7 Jun 1930, 3:1

Under "Personal Paragraphs" in the March issue of the Hotel Bulletin, a national publication, we find the following:
"John B. Ryland, who was chief clerk of the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati for many years and opened the Hotel Honing in the same city, went to Arizona some years ago, in fact twenty to be exact, and is now the manager of the Casa Loma Hotel in Tempe, Arizona, one of the nicest little houses in the state."
To the above may be added, that even in these dull times of slack travel, Mr. Ryland is making a success of the Casa Loma and is constantly increasing its popularity.
-Tempe News, 19 Mar 1932, 3:1

John B. Ryland has taken over the management of the Casa Loma. The dining room will be opened tomorrow under the direction of Chef Chilicott, formerly of the Hotel Adams. Mr. Ryland is an experienced hotel man, having conducted the Gibson House in Cincinnati, Ohio, for a number of years before health considerations caused him to come to Arizona. He was secretary of the Arizona State Fair Commission under Governor Phillips. For the past two years he has been developing a tract in the Arcadia district where he and Mrs. Ryland and daughter Anne live.
- Tempe News, 26 Sep 1931, 3:5

The Casa Loma dining room will put on a special dance tonight at the hotel. The Westward Ho orchestra will furnish the music. It is understood that dancing will be featured every Friday night.
- Tempe News, 21 Oct 1931, 3:4

Landlord John B. Ryland of the Casa Loma announces that the coffee room will be taken over by the hotel and will be run under the management of Miss Donavan who has had years of experience. Prices will be reduced to meet the depression. They will cater to local patronage.
- Tempe News, 23 Apr 1932, 3:4

Mrs. Pruitt of Phoenix has taken over management of the Casa Loma Hotel at this place. The dining room will be operated in connection with the hotel.
- Tempe News, 9 Dec 1933, 3:1

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fogal, Jr. and family have moved to town. Mr. Fogal will take over the duties of manager of the Casa Loma Hotel.
- Tempe News, 5 May 1934, 3:4

A large part of the unsightly vacant lot west of the Casa Loma has been transformed into a beautiful rye grass lawn. The new management of the hotel is doing wonders with hostelry and business is increasing every day.
- Tempe News, 20 Oct 1934, 3:3

Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ritter taking over Casa Loma again.
- Tempe News, 1 Feb 1936, 3:4