University Daily Kansan, September 6, 1984 ENTERTAINMENT Page Calendar Friday Master's: Reecital; Keith Branson, organist in G, swatheborr Reecital Hall B. Go—Go's; 7:30 p.m., Sandstone Theatre, Bonner Springs. David Halley Outdoor Party, 5 p.m. to midnight, 11th and Maine streets. Mighty Joe Young. 9:30 p.m., The Jazzhaus, 92% Massachusetts St. Also performing Saturday night. 1. 5-6 Speed Up. 7:30 p.m., Fine Arts Building, 4949 Cherry St., University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo Saturday Kansas State Fair runs through Sept. 10. Hutchinson. For more information call University Dance Company 8 p.m. and Sept. 9 at 2 p.m., Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall. Tickets are $2 for students citizen and $3.50 for general admission. Lucinda Williams. 9 p.m. Bogarts of Lawrence. 611 Verm St. Renaissance Festival. Every weekend through Oct. 8. Agricultural Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs. 6 to 9 p.m. Potter Lake Arts & Crafts Fair Noon to 5 p.m., South Park, Massachusetts Street between 11th & 13th streets Old Eldridge Hotel added class to Lawrence Kaw Valle Songwriters' Contest. Noon to 6 o.m. Potter Lake. By KAREN MASSMAN Associate Entertainment Editor BY KAREN MASSMAN There was no McDonald's, no F.W. Woolworth, not even a movie theater — just clouds of dust and wooden buildings along Massachusetts Street. But when Shalor Winchell Eldridge and his brothers arrived in 1856, they decided to add some class to the town, so they set about building Lawrence's first hotel. The Eldridge House stands in the original location, but the hotel rooms have changed to apartments, and the eloquent banquet halls have been divided into small shops. Down in the basement is the barber shop where Harry Courtney works. He remembers the hotel during its peak years, from 1920 to 1950. He owned the barber shop in the hotel then, and Originally called the Free State Hotel, the one-story building was described by the Herald of Freedom, one of two newspapers in Lawrence, as having "outhouses of the neatest kind." The entire building cost $20,000 to complete, and that included furniture. "It was a lot different in the old days. It was one of the best hotels in the state." Courtney said. "The hotel always had something going on. Half the business was students or people coming because of the Hill." The hotel stood on the corner, glamorous and glorious, for three weeks. Then, proslavery forces burned it to the ground during the Sack of Lawrence. the Carson by 1859. Eldridge had rebuilt the hotel and renamed it the Eldridge House. The new Eldridge had the first hotel bar in Lawrence, and it was still one of the most elegant hotels west of the Mississippi River. On the morning of August 21, 1963, pro-slavery ruffians again entered Lawrence, this time led by William Clarke Quantrill. For four hours, the men killed and plundered — 150 people died and the luxurious Eldridge House burned to the ground again. The people of Lawrence wanted a nice hotel, so they issued bonds and raised $50,000 to build a new hotel in the 1920s. William However, Shalor Eldridge was undaunted and built his hotel for the third time, changing the name to Hotel Eldridge. This time, though, he lacked the funds to build it with the grandeur that the other Eldridge hotels had. Eventually, he was forced to sell it. Old photos in the Eldridge House coffee shop show the Eldridge Hotel as it was in the late 1800s. Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN Hutson and J. Monte Green, a builder from Manhattan, raised the other $165,000 necessary to tear down the old hotel and build a new one. A pharmacy and postal telegraph were opened in the building, and Courtney's first barber shop opened. When Kansas 7 was built, Massachusetts Street was no longer the hub of Lawrence. After several more owners, the hotel was renovated to apartments by Rockledge Investors Partnership in 1970, and the name was changed back to the Eldridge House. The hotel declined during the 1950s when motels became the fad. The era of the elegant hotels had ended by the time the first Holiday Inn arrived in Lawrence in 1951. THERE'S A GREAT STEAK WAITING FOR YOU... SIBLOIN STOCKADE - For Lunch or Dinner. - All you can eat Salad and Hot Food Bar. - Banquet Facilities. - Carry-Outs. 1015 Iowa Street --- "Lawrence's Most Complete Fitness Facility" Students Membership Special $60.00/ semester Includes: Universal Weights, Freeweights exercise bikes, whirlpools, saunas Professional Instruction, towels lockers. and more. 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