Antlers Hotel, Spirit Lake

Name: Antlers Hotel
Address: Spirit Lake, United States

#3 among attractions in Spirit Lake

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The Antlers Hotel is located in downtown Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States. From the 1880s to the early 1920s an alliance of railroad companies, entrepreneurs, and sportsmen made Spirit Lake and the Iowa Great Lakes region into an upscale tourist destination based on boating, hunting and gun tournaments. Completed in 1902, this hotel was built at the height of that development. A significant addition to the hotel was completed in 1930. Starting in the 1920s tourism started to change with the increasing popularity of the automobile and the decline of the railroads. This is one of the few railroad-era tourism related buildings remaining in the area. It was designed in the Neoclassical style by Austin, Minnesota architect Frank W. Kinney. The three-story brick structure is built on a raised basement. It features brick columns, arched windows, ornamental cornices and a wrap-around veranda. Antlers Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It has been renovated into a 14-unit apartment complex. ()

Built: 1902 (122 years ago)Architectural style: NeoclassicismCoordinates: 43°25'23"N, 95°6'7"W

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Antlers Hotel – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Abbie Gardner Cabin, Pillsbury Point State Park, West Okoboji Lake, Higgins Museum.

4.4 miSW
Historical place, Museum, Park
Abbie Gardner Cabin, Arnolds Park
113 min walk • The Spirit Lake Massacre Log Cabin, also known as the Gardner Log Cabin, is located in Arnolds Park, Iowa, United States. Rowland Gardner had led a group of settlers into the region in 1856, and he built this cabin in July of that year.
4.3 miSW
Park
Pillsbury Point State Park, Okoboji
110 min walk • Pillsbury Point State Park is located in Arnolds Park, Iowa, United States. It is Iowa's smallest state park and unlike the others, it is an urban park.
4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
West Okoboji Lake, Okoboji
102 min walk • West Okoboji Lake is a natural body of water, approximately 3,847 acres in area, in Dickinson County in northwestern Iowa in the United States. It is part of the chain of lakes known as the Iowa Great Lakes. The area was long inhabited by the Santee or Dakota Sioux.
3.3 miSW
Specialty museum, Museum, History museum
Higgins Museum, Okoboji
85 min walk • The Higgins Museum of National Bank Notes is a museum of national bank notes in Okoboji, Iowa. The museum was founded in 1978 by William R. Higgins, Jr.
6.2 miSW
43°20'36"N • 95°9'33"W
Okoboji Classic Cars, Okoboji
159 min walk • Specialty museum, Museum
4.3 miSW
Specialty museum, Concerts and shows, Museum
Iowa Rock N Roll Museum, Arnolds Park
110 min walk • The Iowa Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame is a museum located in Arnolds Park, Iowa and maintained by the non-profit Iowa Rock ‘n’ Roll Music Association.
~670 ftN
Library, Tudor Revival architecture
Spirit Lake Public Library, Spirit Lake
4 min walk • The former Spirit Lake Public Library is located in downtown Spirit Lake, Iowa, United States. The Civic Improvement Association started a library in a rented commercial building downtown in 1901.
~470 ftN
43°25'27"N • 95°6'5"W
Art on 16th, Spirit Lake
3 min walk • Museum