Martin Hotel (Sioux City, Iowa)
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Martin Hotel | |
_from_SE.jpg) View from the southeast, across 4th Street | |
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| Location | 410 Pierce St. Sioux City, Iowa |
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| Coordinates | 42°29′40.7″N 96°24′15.58″W / 42.494639°N 96.4043278°W |
| Built | 1912 |
| Architectural style | Chicago |
| NRHP reference No. | 83000414[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 27, 1983 |
The Martin Hotel, erected as a Chicago style building in 1912, is located in Sioux City, Iowa. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, it is significant for its architecture,[1] operating for many years as the Sheraton-Martin Hotel and now known as the Martin Tower Apartments.
Because of people's excitement over the upcoming Interstate Fair, the Martin Hotel was constructed at the intersection of the Fourth Street Historic District and Pierce Street, in the city's downtown area.[2] Features of the hotel included a ballroom, restaurant, cafeteria, and cigar stand.[3]
The then current construction of the boiler room was written about in the fourteenth volume of The Reformatory Press, published in 1911, which stated that the room would be "30 feet wide, 55 feet long, and 22 feet deep". The boiler room would then be large enough to be considered one of the biggest heating rooms within the United States.[4]
The Martin Hotel was one of Eugene C. Eppley's hotels from 1915 to 1956. In 1956, the hotel was renamed the Sheraton-Martin Hotel after being acquired by the Sheraton Corp.[5]
