Robbins Hotel

Robbins Hotel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The former hotel in 2011
Location	AL 265, Beatrice, Alabama
Coordinates	31°44′9″N 87°12′34″W / 31.73583°N 87.20944°WCoordinates: 31°44′9″N 87°12′34″W / 31.73583°N 87.20944°W
NRHP Reference #	87000858[1]
Added to NRHP	August 26, 1987

The Robbins Hotel was a historic hotel building in Beatrice, Alabama. The nucleus of the building started out as a private, one-story home with six rooms, built circa 1840. A second floor was added sometime later. The house was converted to a hotel between 1906 and 1910.^[2]

The hotel comprised a two-story, hipped-roof main block that measures approximately 40 by 50 feet (12 m × 15 m), with a 40-foot (12 m) long one-and-a-half-story dining room wing with an end-gable roof and dormer windows to the southeast. The main block features full-width two-story porches at the front and rear. Architectural historians considered it to be a good example of a small privately owned southern hotel, which opened as a direct result of the completion of the railroad connecting west Alabama and the coast at the end of the 19th century.^[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1987.^[1] The building burned on October 12, 2012.

References

1. Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Marilyn B. Sullivan (May 15, 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Robbins Hotel" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved April 1, 2013. See also: "Accompanying photos" (PDF).