Logan House Hotel
The Logan House Hotel was a historic hotel located in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The hotel was in operation from the 1850s to the 1920s, when it was demolished.
History[]
The Logan House Hotel was built between 1852-53 by Thomas Burchinell, a carpenter who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad.[1][2] The three-story, 106 room hotel was located close to Altoona's train station, which sat on an important rail line between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.[2][3] The hotel is recorded as having heated water and gas lighting.[1] The hotel was named after Chief Logan, a local Native American chief whom had lived in the area in the 18th-century.[3]
In 1862 the hotel was the site of the War Governors' Conference, a meeting in which several high-profile governors of United States states affirmed their support for the Union during the-then ongoing American Civil War.[3][1]
The Logan House Hotel was closed in 1927, and in 1931 the property was sold to the United States Government,[3] which built a post office on the site of the former hotel.[1]
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- ^ a b c d "Logan House". Read the Plaque. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
- ^ a b "Logan House, Altoona". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
- ^ a b c d explorepahistory.com http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-1CF. Retrieved 2019-02-16.
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