Monday, January 27, 2025
Question: Who is the Brown Palace Hotel and Spa named for?
Answer: The Brown Palace Hotel is named after its founder, Henry Cordes Brown, a real estate entrepreneur from Ohio who arrived in Denver in 1860. He purchased the land where the hotel now stands, initially used for grazing his cows. Contrary to myth, it is not named after Titanic survivor Molly Brown, though she stayed there for two weeks after the sinking of the Titanic.