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Commercial Hotel (Fort Smith, Arkansas)

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Built
  
1898

NRHP Reference #
  
73000391

Area
  
1,214 m²

Architectural style
  
Victorian Baroque

Opened
  
1898

Added to NRHP
  
7 May 1973

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Location
  
123 N. 1st St., Fort Smith, Arkansas

The Commercial Hotel, also known as the River Front Hotel, is a historic former hotel building at 123 North 1st Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The three story hotel is constructed of wood with a mansard roof, third-floor dormers, and wrought iron cresting, which are all characteristic of the Second Empire style. The hotel was built in 1898-99, when Fort Smith was a frontier town at the edge of Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Following Oklahoma statehood in 1907, the hotel declined in significance and eventually closed. The building now hosts "Miss Laura's Social Club", and serves as Fort Smith's visitors center.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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Commercial Hotel (Fort Smith, Arkansas) Wikipedia