The Driftwood Hotel sign on E. Colfax. It points to the hotel on the other side of the street!

The driftwood from the Driftwood Hotel.

Troutdale In The Pines ad from 1958.

Troutdale was a three story hotel, built in 1920 with 6,000 wagonloads of local rock. A 4th story was added in 1927. The hotel had a large lounge, a dining room that seated 250 and a dancing pavilion called the Rainbow Ballroom (which you can see in the ad hanging over the lake.)

The first floor had private dining rooms, a billiard room, a bar, a barber shop, a drug store, kitchens and a bakery, guest rooms were on the 2nd, 3rd & 4th floors.

I am guessing, but I would assume the architect was J. B. Benedict, who designed many similar stone based buildings in the Front Range.

Famous guests included Teddy Roosevelt, Greta Garbo, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Mary Pickford and the Marx Brothers!

A postcard of the International-style Broadway Plaza Hotel with a photo taken when it
was first completed in 1959. This building is still standing, of course!

Go here to see a 1959 ad featuring the same photo.

(Postcard borrowed from the Neat Stuff blog.)