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| Title | Monte Sano Hotel |
| Creator | unknown; |
| Subject | Hotels--Alabama--Monte Sano Hotel (Huntsville, Ala.); |
| Description | Located atop Monte Sano Mountain in Huntsville, the Monte Sano Hotel opened in 1887. The 233-room Victorian hotel was built by the Northern Alabama Improvement Company, with the assistance of Michael and James O'Shaughnessy, and attracted wealthy investors to the Tennessee Valley. The hotel earned a reputation as being a health resort and "Monte Sano" is Native American for "mountain of health." Guests arrived via the Monte Sano Railway, which transported passengers from the Memphis & Charleston Railroad Depot in downtown Huntsville to the top of Monte Sano mountain. Famous guests who have stayed there include William H. Vanderbilt, William Waldorf Astor, Walter Damrosch, Jay Gould, and Helen Keller. The hotel closed in 1900 and became the summer residence of the Garth family before it was dismantled for scrap in 1944. |
| Publisher | Huntsville Madison County Public Library |
| Date | 2005-03-30 |
| Type | image |
| Format | JPEG |
| Source | North Alabama Railroad Museum |
| Language | en |
| Relation | North Alabama Railroad Museum |
| Coverage | Huntsville, Alabamaunknown |
| Rights | U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Please contact the Huntsville Madison County Public Library for permission to use the digital image. |
