Robbins Hotel

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Robbins Hotel
Robbins Hotel at Beatrice, AL.jpg
The former hotel in 2011
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LocationAL 265, Beatrice, Alabama
Coordinates 31°44′9″N87°12′35″W / 31.73583°N 87.20972°W / 31.73583; -87.20972 Coordinates: 31°44′9″N87°12′35″W / 31.73583°N 87.20972°W / 31.73583; -87.20972
NRHP reference No. 87000858 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 26, 1987

The Robbins Hotel was a historic hotel building in Beatrice, Alabama. The nucleus of the building started out as a private, one-story home with six rooms, built circa 1840. A second floor was added sometime later. The house was converted to a hotel between 1906 and 1910. [2]

The hotel comprised a two-story, hipped-roof main block that measures approximately 40 by 50 feet (12 m × 15 m), with a 40-foot (12 m) long one-and-a-half-story dining room wing with an end-gable roof and dormer windows to the southeast. The main block features full-width two-story porches at the front and rear. Architectural historians considered it to be a good example of a small privately owned southern hotel, which opened as a direct result of the completion of the railroad connecting west Alabama and the coast at the end of the 19th century. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1987. [1] The building burned on October 12, 2012.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Marilyn B. Sullivan (May 15, 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Robbins Hotel". National Park Service. Retrieved April 1, 2013.See also: "Accompanying photos".