15 Facts About Stanley Hotel

Stanley Hotel is a 140-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, United States, about five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park.

Stanley Hotel inspired the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's 1977 bestselling novel The Shining and its 1980 film adaptation, and was a filming location for the related 1997 TV miniseries.

In 1903, the steam-powered car inventor Freelan Oscar Stanley Hotel was stricken with a life-threatening resurgence of tuberculosis.

Therefore, like many "lungers" of his day, Stanley Hotel resolved to take the curative air of the Rocky Mountains.

Stanley Hotel lived to 91, dying of a heart attack in Newton, Massachusetts, one year after his wife, in 1940.

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Stanley Hotel's reputation was such that, when Stanley suggested "The Dunraven" as a name for his new hotel, 180 people signed a buckskin petition requesting that he name it for himself instead.

In 1926, Stanley sold his hotel to a private company incorporated for the sole purpose of running it.

The venture failed and, in 1929, Stanley purchased his property out of foreclosure selling it again, in 1930, to fellow automobile and hotel magnate, Roe Emery of Denver.

Stanley Hotel, built at a cost of $500,000, was partly wrecked last night by an explosion of gas.

Originally, Stanley Hotel chose a yellow ocher color for the buildings' exteriors with white accents and trim.

The parallels between the Carolina and the Stanley Hotel extend beyond style; the builder of the Carolina, James Walker Tufts, was a Boston soda magnate who initially developed Pinehurst as a health resort for people with pulmonary diseases.

Stanley Hotel himself, having been raised in a conservative household and having recovered from a serious lung disease, did not smoke cigars or drink alcohol, but these were essential after-dinner activities for most men at the time.

Once called Stanley Manor, this smaller hotel between the main structure and the concert hall is a 2:3 scaled-down version of the main hotel.

Unlike its model, the manor was fully heated from completion in 1910 which may indicate that Stanley Hotel planned to use it as a winter resort when the main building was closed for the season.

Stanley served as the fictional Hotel and filming location for Danbury of Aspen, Colorado, in the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber.