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Bross Was First Luxury Hotel In Delta County

KVNF - Mountain Grown Community Radio | By Marty Durlin

Published December 12, 2013 at 9:35 AM MST

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A detail from one of four bronze panels created by local sculptor Lincoln Fox, installed in 1998. The panels are part of a faux elevator shaft

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Another detail from the bronze panels

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The Bross Hotel today

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A survey team leaves the Bross Hotel, around 1913

Linda Lentz

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Ute Indians with their travois in front of the Bross, around 1906, when the building was completed

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Linda Lentz, who bought the building with her daughter in 2000, is the eighth owner of the Bross Hotel. She researched and wrote a booklet about the Bross's first hundred years in 2006.

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Delta County Commissioners recently named two historical landmarks, one being the Rogers Mesa Community House, the other the historic Bross Hotel.

The Bross was built in 1906 and according to early newspapers, was Delta County's first luxury hotel (and early on, its only one.)

Now, after over 100 years and eight different owners, the Bross is a bed & breakfast.