If These Walls Could Talk: Revisiting the McLure Hotel

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In keeping with the new ownership and rebirth of the McLure House, this talk will highlight the hotel’s history, along with biographies of some of the famous people who had some connection to it.

Included will be John McLure, Sr.; Ellsworth Statler; General William Rosecrans; actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Henrietta Crosman; wild-west showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody; notorious Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy.

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