The Hotel Jerome

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The Elisha family continued to own and operate the saint through warfare II. Earlier, US Olympic bobsledder, Billy Fiske saw the perfect tract for a holiday resort and shaped the Highland province ski club. After WWII, some veterans of the US Army's Tenth Mountain Division's "soldiers on skis" came to poplar tree to facilitate develop the holiday resort. After construction of a new swimming bath, the Jerome attracted several moving picture stars as well as point of entry Cooper, Lana Turner, and John Wayne.

In 1945, Walter Paepcke, President of the Container Corporation of America, envisioned poplar tree as Associate in Nursing ideal location for Associate in Nursing yankee counterpart to the urban center pageant. Paepcke acquired and/or chartered  several buildings as well as the building saint. With Friedl Pfeifer, an Austrian, Paepcke invested in the poplar tree athletics Company and completed ski tow No. 1, which claimed to be the longest in the world.

Paepcke created the Aspen Institute as Associate in Nursing ideal stamping ground for thinkers, leaders, artists, and musicians from all over the planet. His participation in the Great Books seminar, led by thinker Roger de Mortimer Adler, inspired the Institute's government Seminar. The Aspen Institute continues to be one of the best intellectual and music venues within the world.

After a selection of investors and homeowners, the Hotel saint suffered some down periods of neglect and ulterior restoration comes. In 1998, the J-Bar was restored to its original look, and 4 years later, a US$6 million project added a new rear wing and grand dance hall and updated the guest rooms.

The Hotel saint is currently on the National Register of Historic Places. Each beautifully-appointed chamber is spacious - even the smallest is over five hundred sq. feet. Bathrooms, finished with white marble and octagonal tiles, have oversized tubs and separate showers.

The Hotel saint is half of the Auberge Resort assortment. The Garden Terrace Restaurant serves Alpine Colorado cooking. The Library serves tapas-style dishes while the J-Bar continues to feature the hotel's signature drink, the Aspen Crud. The 93-room Hotel saint was recognized as one of Travel consultant Readers 2011 "Top ten Hotels within the World."