Cabinet Photo Hotel Evans, Fremont Elkhorn & Missouri Valley RR Hot Spgs S Dak for Sale

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Cabinet Photo Hotel Evans, Fremont Elkhorn & Missouri Valley RR Hot Spgs S Dak For Sale

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Cabinet Photo Hotel Evans, Fremont Elkhorn & Missouri Valley RR Hot Spgs S Dak:
$165.00

Here is a very nice Cross cabinet photograph depicting the Hotel Evans in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The hotel was located near the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad. In 1892 local businessman Fred Evans constructed the historic building that was known as the Evans Hotel. It was a time when Hot Springs streets were lined with spas, bath houses and resorts that made Hot Springs the City of Healing Waters. The Evans was purportedly an imitation of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Crenelated towers and central decorative piece are major features of this H-shaped building. Other elements include: Romanesque fifth floor windows with hood mold, wrought iron balconies, a neo-classic front porch of the Victorian era, and round arched, blind arcade cornice. The annex was constructed shortly after the hotel, and served as the bath house. Once again a crenellated roof line and Romanesque windows highlights this V-shaped building. Charles Smith was the architect for both buildings.*William Richard Cross, photographer of the Nebraska-South Dakota frontier, was born in Bennington County, Vermont, in 1839. Cross and his wife moved to Creighton in 1871 where they spent seven years. In 1886, after some more traveling to photograph Native Americans in the Niobrara-Valentine area in north-central Nebraska, where Cross met his apprentice, John A. Anderson, he opened a studio at Fort Niobrara. In 1888, Cross and Anderson conspired at Fort Meade, proximal to the Black Hills of South Dakota. Anderson left to become a civilian photographer for the U.S. Army and became a well-known photographer while living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Cross spent the remainder of the decade photographing in the Hot Springs, South Dakota area. He died in 1907 of pneumonia. Just under 7” x 10” with Cross’s paper tag on the back. Mild edge wear. Clean sharp image.