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The Elms
| 1888 | First Elms Hotel formally opened July 4, 1888. |
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1889 |
Elms Annex built 1889. |
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1898 |
First Elms Hotel burned, May 9, 1898. |
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1908 |
Second Elms Hotel built 1908. |
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1909 |
Second Elms burned 1909 |
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| 1909 |
Photo Source: Views of Excelsior Springs Accession #72C73.304 Excelsior Springs Museum & Archives, 101 E. Broadway, Excelsior Springs, MO p. 1 |
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1912 |
Present Elms opened. |
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| 1917 | The Elm Tree Inn Co and John Emmke proprietors | ||
| 1900's? | Elms Hotel bus parked in front of the original Golf Course Club House (see: middle bus) |  |
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| 1926 | Photo Source: 1926 The Excelsior p. 13 (High School Yearbook) |
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| 1930 | F.F. Hagel bought the hotel and built a miniature golf course opposide the hotel. | ||
| 1931 | The Elms was infamous as well as famous in those wild days. Early one morning in November 1931 was one of the most intensive and exciting gun battles in Excelsior Springs' history. Bandits attempting to hold up the hotel escaped in a speeding car, followed close behind by a group of local law enforcement men dubbed the "shotgun squad". There was a gun battle in the hotel lobby and veranda, with bullets flattened against stone walls, breaking through windows, and denting cars. The four bandits were captured later in Kansas City, one of them wounded. | ||
| 1932 | The Elms was closed and put up for sale. | ||
| 1933 | Reopened in March 1933. | ||
| 1948 | Harry Truman was elected president while staying at the Elms Hotel. | ||
| 1961 | Elms declared bankruptcy and Sheraton-Midcontinent took over ownership. | ||
| 1966 | Sheraton sold the Elms to Gotham Hotels of New York. | ||
| 1970 | Gotham closed the hotel claiming a lack of bookings. | ||
| 1973 | In June a local group called the Elms Development Corporation bought the hotel. The hotel was never reopened because of nonpayment of taxes. | ||
| 1976 | Robert Bisbee, a Kansas City businessman, bought the Elms. By 1979 the hotel was reopened. | ||
| 1980 | Kansas City Times article July 18, 1980 | ||
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