Eppley Hotel Company

The Eppley Hotel Company was located in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time of its acquisition by the Sheraton Corporation in 1956, it was the largest privately-held hotel business in the United States."Closing the Gap", Time magazine. June 4, 1956. Retrieved 2/3/08.
==About==
Owned by hotel magnate Eugene C. Eppley, the company was established in 1917. There were 22 hotels spread across six states."Closing the Gap", Time magazine. June 4, 1956. Retrieved 2/3/08.
===Properties===
The 22 hotels in the Eppley Hotel Company's portfolio included Pittsburgh's William Penn Hotel, the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky and Hotel Fontenelle in Omaha, Nebraska. 
Other properties included the West Hotel in Sioux City, Iowa, which was built in 1903 and became part of the Eppley chain of hotels in the mid-1930s. The West Hotel was razed in 1953. Sioux City's Warrior Hotel was built with the name "Fontenelle Hotel" in 1930. Known as the Warrior Hotel soon thereafter, Eppley bought the Warrior in 1936. Eppley Hotels sold the Warrior to the Sheraton Corporation of America in 1956.Take a step back in time: Nebraska Street walking tour. Sioux City Museum. Retrieved 2/3/08.
Omaha's Hotel Fontenelle was built in 1914. An exquisite venue, the Fontenelle hosted dignitaries and luminaries of all sorts, including Presidents Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy. After Eppley sold it to the Sheraton corporation, the hotel eventually went to ruins, closing in the 1970s. It was demolished in 1983.
In 1927, Eppley commissioned four murals by Grant Wood for his hotels in Council Bluffs, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo and Sioux City. The original piece painted for Eppley's Martin Hotel dining room in Sioux City, one of the Corn Room series, is now located in the Sioux City Art Center."Introduction", Sioux City Art Center. Retrieved 2/2/08.
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Name 	City 	Notes 	 	 	
Hotel Norfolk 	Norfolk, Nebraska 	 	 	 	
Hotel Lincoln 	Lincoln, Nebraska 	 	 	 	
Hotel Capital 	Lincoln, Nebraska 	 	 	 	
Hotel Lindell 	Lincoln, Nebraska 	 	 	 	
Hotel Fontenelle 	Omaha, Nebraska 	Built in 1914, this hotel was Omaha's prominent hotel for more than 50 years. It was demolished in 1983.	 	 	
Hotel Rome 	Omaha, Nebraska 	 	 	 	
Logan Apartment Hotel 	Omaha, Nebraska 	 	 	 	
Hotel Cataract 	Sioux Falls, South Dakota 	 	 	 	
Hotel Carpenter 	Sioux Falls, South Dakota 	 	 	 	
Hotel Warrior 	Sioux City, Iowa 	 	 	 	
Hotel Martin 	Sioux City, Iowa 	 	 	 	
Hotel West 	Sioux City, Iowa 	 	 	 	
Hotel Tallcorn 	Marshalltown, Iowa 	 	 	 	
Hotel Chieftain 	Council Bluffs, Iowa 	 	 	 	
Hotel Montrose 	Cedar Rapids, Iowa 	 	 	 	
Hotel Magnas 	Cedar Rapids, Iowa 	 	 	 	
Hotel Seelbach 	Louisville, Kentucky 	 	 	 	
Hotel Fort Pitt 	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 	 	 	 	
Hotel William Penn 	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 	 	 	 	
Hotel Alexandria 	Los Angeles, California 	 	 	 	
Elms Hotel 	Excelsior Springs, Missouri	 	 	 	
==Merger==
Eugene Eppley sold the company to Sheraton Hotels in 1956 for $30 million. The hotel chain's sale was, at the time, the second largest hotel sale in United States history."Closing the Gap", Time magazine. June 4, 1956. Retrieved 2/3/08.
==See also==
* History of Omaha
* Economy of Omaha, Nebraska
==References==
==External links==
* Restaurant Ware Pattern & Other Ephemera from the hotel chain
Category:Defunct companies based in Omaha, Nebraska
Category:Hotel chains
Category:Companies established in 1917
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