Deshler Hotel
Former hotel in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
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The Deshler Hotel, also known as the Deshler-Wallick Hotel, was a hotel building in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The hotel was located at Broad and High Streets, the city's 100 percent corner.
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| Deshler Hotel | |
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The Deshler beside the LeVeque Tower, c. 1930-45 | |
 Site of the hotel | |
Alternative names | Deshler-Wallick, Deshler Hilton, Deshler-Cole, Beasley-Deshler |
General information | |
| Location | 9 N. High St., Columbus, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 39°57′44″N 83°00′04″W |
| Opened | August 23, 1916 |
| Closed | July 31, 1968 |
| Demolished | 1969 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Holabird & Roche |
Announced in 1912 and opened by John G. Deshler in 1916, the hotel originally had 400 rooms, intended to rival the other luxury hotels of the world.[1]: 38 The hotel was later leased by Lew and Adrian Wallick, hoteliers from Ohio and New York. Called the Deshler-Wallick Hotel by the time the LeVeque Tower opened, its then-1,000 rooms were accessible by a "venetian bridge" linking the two buildings on the second floor. New York Mayor Jimmy Walker, who attended the opening, tried and nearly succeeded in having a ceremonial sip of wine in each of the 600 hotel rooms. The hotel would later host President Harry S. Truman in 1946 during a meeting of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ. He and Bess Truman would later stay at the hotel again in 1953.[1]: 39 In 1947 the hotel sold to Julius Epstein of Chicago, apparently for $2 million,[2]: 116 who again sold it five years later to the Hilton Hotels chain, which renamed the hotel the Deshler-Hilton. In 1964 it was sold to a company owned by Charles Cole who renamed it the Deshler-Cole. Cole eliminated the 600 rooms located inside LeVeque Tower and invested $2 million to remodel the hotel. The hotel rooms in the building's wings having been eliminated, the "venetian bridge" was demolished.[2]: 117 The building was sold a final time to Fred Beasley in 1966 and renamed the Beasley-Deshler before being closed in 1968 and demolished by S.G. Loewendick & Sons in 1969.[1]: 39 [3][4] Today the site is the home of One Columbus Center, a tower developed in part by LeVeque Enterprises.[5]
The hotel was one of few sites listed in The Green Book in Columbus.[6]
