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Libby Hotel Photo courtesy Duane Williams, KLCB-KTNY Radio. Hotel Libby listed on National Register of Historic Places by Duane Williams, KLCB-KTNY Radio September 19, 2012 The Hotel Libby received a notification Thursday from the National Park Service saying Hotel Libby is officially on the National Register of Historic Places. It has been two years of gathering documents, historical research, photos, applications and requirements to obtain the coveted designation for the 113-year old structure on California Avenue. Hotel Libby appears in the register as its original name, "The Coram," after its original owner and builder, J.A. Coram. Coram, Frank M. Leonard and A.J. Maltman started the project in 1899, but the mining industry tanked in the early 1900's causing The Coram to sit unfinished, just a hulk of a framework for better than a decade. In 1909, C.E. Lukens and John H. Town purchased the building and plans. In 1910, they opened. It was reworked in 1946, and by the late 1970's sat empty and unused for several decades once again. The current plan is to renovate and rehabilitate it to its 1930's elegance, reopen and make it a commercially viable hotel again anchoring California Avenue at the entrance to Libby. ___________________________________________ By Duane Williams, KLCB-KTNY Radio, e-mail: klcb@frontiernet.net.

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