1884 - Cutter's
Guide
The Eureka Springs of Arkansas
The hotels and boarding houses of Eureka Springs are numerous.
The Perry House is the only real first-class hotel in the city;
and we say this with no disparagement of the Southern, Hancock,
Harper, or other Houses that would be the first-class houses but
for the Perry House.
The Perry House 1881 - 1890
This first-class hotel was built around two years ago, by Mr.
Joseph Perry, of Colorado, a gentleman who has built more good
hotels on the line of the railroads in Kansas City and Colorado.
Mr. Perry came to Eureka Springs as an invalid and considered
incurable, but he was so quickly and perfectly cured of his
sufferings that he felt grateful enough to build a fine hotel.
He has not only build a find house, but as furnished it
throughout in the best manner, and keeps it in first-class style
in every particular.
The 1905 Basin Park Hotel - A Hotel for a day or a year.
The Basin Park Hotel ranks among the largest and most modern
resort hotels in the country. A fire-proof structure, built at a
cost of $150,000.
The Hotel occupies a central position at the resort, adjoining
the famous Basin Spring. From every floor bridges reach to the
mountain, conveniently leading to pleasant walks, also affording
guests a feeling of great security in case of fire. The Basin
Park is equipped with all modern conveniences, including fine
electric elevator with every known safety appliance, electric
lights, hot and cold water in every room, one hundred bed-rooms,
fifty with private bath, telephone in each guestroom and guests
bath-room on every floor. The dining-room will seat two hundred
persons. Lobby, office, barber-shop, and drugstore on ground
floor. The seventh floor is devoted to ball-room, sun parlor,
reception, grill and billiards room. - 1907 Hotel Brochure.
A Hotel for the 21st Century
Mary and Elise Roenick purchased the Basin Park Hotel on
February 28, 1997 with plans of construction of a
semi-retirement home on the hotel top floors. Although the loft
style home was never build, the Roenicks have been responsible
for the preservation, and restoration of the Basin Park and
Crescent Hotels, doing their part in protecting the
irreplaceable. - 2002 Gubernatorial Proclamation
In partnership with the greater Eureka Springs Chamber of
Commerce and the Community Development Partnership.
