Callaghan Apartments, Hotel in den Vereinigten Staaten
Callaghan Apartments is a historic hotel in Thermopolis, Wyoming, built in 1918 and showing early 20th-century architecture. The building has a U-shape made of yellow brick with red brick decorative details, two floors, and originally contained about 70 rooms with shared bathrooms at the end of each hallway.
The hotel was built in 1918 by James Callaghan, a bricklayer who also made the bricks on-site using a kiln. In 1921 he sold the property to Dr. P. W. Metz, who renamed it and oversaw various renovations over the following decades until it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
The building was originally known as the Plaza Apartments and later as the Plaza Hotel. The layout reflects early 20th-century design principles and shows how visitors came to Thermopolis to benefit from the mineral waters.
The building sits near the Big Horn River and still operates as a hotel today, allowing visitors to see the interior spaces and mineral water system. The setting is quiet with river views, and the location is part of Hot Springs County's historic district with other old buildings nearby.
James Callaghan, the hotel's builder, was a bricklayer who set up a kiln on the property and made all the bricks needed for construction himself. This unusual situation of a builder producing his own materials on-site is a rare example of self-sufficiency in building practices from that era.
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