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Lost Hutchinson: Merchant’s Hotel

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I.P. Jorgenson’s Merchant’s Hotel was considered the finest hotel in McLeod County in 1884. Its Mansard roof and styling are typI.P. Jorgenson’s Merchant’s Hotel was considered the finest hotel in McLeod County in 1884. Its Mansard roof and styling are typical of French Second Empire architecture popular in the 1870s and 1880s.

Constructed: May 22, 1884 to Nov. 6, 1884

Torn down: After March 1916

Location: Southwest corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue



Merchant’s Hotel above is part of a 20-week series of Lost Hutchinson buildings. Watch the Tuesday print edition for more information about the Merchant’s Hotel. If any readers have other photos, renderings or information about this building, please post them here or send them to: Hutchinson Leader, 36 Washington Ave. W., Hutchinson, MN 55350.

A collection of information published in the Lost Hutchinson series as well as reader submitted photos and remembrances will be published in a magazine later this year.

If you missed the Lost Hutchinson series last week, click on the link below for the Milwaukee Road Depot.


I.P. Jorgenson's two sons...

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I.P. Jorgenson's two sons built the "new" brick Hotel Jorgenson in 1916 on the same site as the Merchant's Hotel. The brick building is commonly known as the Hutch Hotel, and is home today to the Chamber of Commerce. The "old" building was moved across the alley, and information about its fate is unknown.

If you have any information, photos or remembrances about the Merchant's Hotel, please share them with readers by posting here.


Submitted by Matt McMillan on March 13, 2007 - 10:51am.

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