Copper Queen Hotel, Bisbee

Circa 1905 postcard of the Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee, owned by Jean Walker

Tombstone Epitaph, February 16, 1902. Page 2

Transcribed by Jean Walker, June 2024

Bisbee, February 9th

The Copper Queen hotel is now open to the public, Mr. C. C. Rouzer is the manager. The total cost $75,000 and is complete in every detail. It has taken just eighteen months to build and quip this magnificent hostelry. The cost of the furnishings alone amount to $25,000.

Circa 1915 postcard of Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee, owned by Jean Walker

Who's Who in Arizona Vol. 1. 1913. By Jo Conners Pgs 749-750

Transcribed by Jean Walker, July 2024

The Copper queen Hotel, Bisbee, was built eleven years ago, in order that a comfortable and reasonable accommodation might be afforded the traveling public making a visit to that city, and for the especial convenience of employees of the copper Queen Company.The hotel is situated in the central part of Bisbee, convenient to all sections. It is conducted on the European plan, and has about seventy five rooms, twenty of which have private baths. The structure is of a noble type of hotel architecture, the original cost of which was about $175,000. In 1906 an additional $25,0000 was spent in improvements, and it now ranks in every way with the very best hotels to be found in the Southwest. In the cafe, which is run in connection with the hotel, the art of catering to the public reaches its climax, as the service is beyond reproach, and in the food served quality is never sacrificed to cost, while the dining room itself is most attractive, both in its location and the manner of its keeping, A first class buffet and billiard room of the highest standing are also conducted in its spacious quarters. Henry Poppen, the manager of the Copper Queen, took charge of the hotel in 1909, having come from the Hotel Wellington, Chicago. Mr. Poppen is thoroughly familiar with the are to entertaining the public, and affording them comfort and courtesy. He is a most genial host, and is surrounded by a corps of well trained professional hotel employees, some of whom have been in the service for a number of years, and all of whom work in harmony with the policy of the Copper Queen.

USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material must obtain written consent of the archivist or submitter.

---