Rossonian Hotel
The Rossonian, Denver’s historical jazz hotel, located on Welton in Five Points.
The Rossonian was one of the few jazz stops west of the Mississippi and east of California to host black performers like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole from the 1930s through the 1950s, at least until the Cotton Club opened in Colorado Springs.
As you can see in the photo above, the building was originally the Baxter Hotel which opened in 1912. It became the Rossonian in 1929.
It is also well-known as one of Jack Kerouac’s Denver haunts of the 1940s and was a primary film location for the 1995 all-star film Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead.
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