Colonial Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Colonial Hotel, also known as Colonial Apartments, is a historic hotel located at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri. It was built in 1924, and is a three-story, red brick building.”
Wikipedia article Colonial Hotel (Excelsior Springs, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 328 E Broadway, Excelsior Springs, 64024
When was it listed? June 2010
Category. building
Township. Fishing River township
National Register reference number. 10000392 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

The ground it stands on

52 words

This property stands in Fishing River Township. History of Clay County, Missouri, published 1920 gives that township a chapter of its own.

The chapter covers position aud description, early history, first settlers, etc, voters at first election in township, country churches, missouri city, its ler and subsequent career.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Fishing River Township - 52 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Fires near this property

13 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Colonial Hotel between 2011 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177901-08922-08082018-1512
9 July 2018	Debris and open burning	7.1 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177358-08922-07092018-1629
23 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
15 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
5 April 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
20 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177354-08922-04202018-1443
31 March 2018	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177241-02412-03312018-1042

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Colonial Hotel: 20 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Clay County Mine and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Doc Gould Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hedges Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mays Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mclaughlin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rice Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Schoaler & Bates Shaft	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

2 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Excelsior Springs, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1993 and 1994: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1993	Hail	Excelsior Springs	$5,000	Large hail, ranging from just under 1.00 inch to golf ball-size, produced substantial damage to automobiles on several dealership lots in Gladstone. Two-inch-diameter hail was reported near Lake Doniphan Road in Excelsior Springs.
June 1994	Hail	Excelsior Springs	-	Local agricultural officials reported moderate damage to crops from high wind and large hail.

Every storm recorded in Clay County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Ligon Apartments	under 500 feet	2010
Excelsior Springs Hall of Waters Commercial East Historic District	under 500 feet	1999
Hall of Waters	0.2 miles	1983
First Methodist Church	0.2 miles	2009
Boarding House District	0.2 miles	2018
Elms, The, Historic District	0.4 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000392 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay County	All 39 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.