Hotel Brooks

Completed: 1914

Construction on the Brooks Hotel began in 1912. The building was finished in 1914. On opening night, February 21,1914, a large crowd gathered and an orchestra signaled the opening of the new accommodations. The building housed businesses on the ground floor and hotel rooms on the second floor. There was a grocery store, dime store and optometrist/jeweler as some of the original businesses in the building. There was also a large hotel dining room. The Brooks family owned the building until the late 1920s. After selling the hotel in the late 1920s it was converted to apartments.

A fire in 1942 glutted the interior. By 1945 a remodel added a movie theater, coffee shop and offices. After the theater closed in the 1960s, many businesses have been housed in the Brooks Building up to the present.