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-[[Category:Hotels]]
+[[Category:Lodging]]
 [[Category:Markham Street]]

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 [[Image:Anthony-house.jpg|thumb|300px|The Brooks-Baxter War begins in front of Anthony House.]]
-The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn on Markham Street in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened at the southwest corner of Markham and Scott streets in 1841 under Major [[James C. Anthony]]. The three-story hotel held twenty-eight bedrooms, two parlors, and a sixty foot dining room. The hotel advertised "accommodations unsurpassed by any establishment west of the Alleghanies." The hotel also advertised that it had ice year-round. [[David Skelton]] managed a brickwork stable for the hotel nearby. It was also the headquarters of the general stage office for the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]].
+The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn on Markham Street in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened at the southwest corner of Markham and Scott streets in 1841 under Major [[James C. Anthony]]. The three-story hotel held twenty-eight bedrooms, two parlors, and a sixty foot dining room. The hotel advertised "accommodations unsurpassed by any establishment west of the Alleghanies." The hotel also advertised that it had ice year-round. [[David Skelton]] managed a brickwork stable for the hotel nearby. It was also the headquarters of the general stage office for the [[Butterfield Stage Route|Butterfield Overland Mail]].
 The hotel is famous as the headquarters of Governor [[Elisha Baxter]] during the [[Brooks-Baxter War]] of 1874.

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-The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn on [[Markham Street]] in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened at the southwest corner of Markham and Scott streets in 1841 under Major [[James C. Anthony]]. The three-story hotel held twenty-eight bedrooms, two parlors, and a sixty foot dining room. The hotel advertised "accommodations unsurpassed by any establishment west of the Alleghanies." The hotel also advertised that it had ice year-round. [[David Skelton]] managed a brickwork stable for the hotel nearby. It was also the headquarters of the general stage office for the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]].
+The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn on Markham Street in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened at the southwest corner of Markham and Scott streets in 1841 under Major [[James C. Anthony]]. The three-story hotel held twenty-eight bedrooms, two parlors, and a sixty foot dining room. The hotel advertised "accommodations unsurpassed by any establishment west of the Alleghanies." The hotel also advertised that it had ice year-round. [[David Skelton]] managed a brickwork stable for the hotel nearby. It was also the headquarters of the general stage office for the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]].
 The hotel is famous as the headquarters of Governor [[Elisha Baxter]] during the [[Brooks-Baxter War]] of 1874.

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	The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn on [[Markham Street]] in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened at the southwest corner of Markham and Scott streets in 1841 under Major [[James C. Anthony]]. The three-story hotel held twenty-eight bedrooms, two parlors, and a sixty foot dining room. The hotel advertised "accommodations unsurpassed by any establishment west of the Alleghanies." The hotel also advertised that it had ice year-round. [[David Skelton]] managed a brickwork stable for the hotel nearby. It was also the headquarters of the general stage office for the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]].		The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn on [[Markham Street]] in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened at the southwest corner of Markham and Scott streets in 1841 under Major [[James C. Anthony]]. The three-story hotel held twenty-eight bedrooms, two parlors, and a sixty foot dining room. The hotel advertised "accommodations unsurpassed by any establishment west of the Alleghanies." The hotel also advertised that it had ice year-round. [[David Skelton]] managed a brickwork stable for the hotel nearby. It was also the headquarters of the general stage office for the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]].

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 *"Historical Society to Discuss Old Hotel," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' April 8, 1995.
 *Ira Don Richards, ''Story of a Rivertown: Little Rock in the Nineteenth Century'' (1969), 56.
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-The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn on [[Markham Street]] in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened at the southwest corner of Markham and Scott streets in 1841 under Major [[James C. Anthony]]. The three-story hotel held twenty-eight bedrooms, two parlors, and a sixty foot dining room. The hotel advertised "accommodations unsurpassed by any establishment west of the Alleghanies." The hotel also advertised that it had ice year-round. [[David Skelton]] managed a brickwork stable for the hotel nearby.
+The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn on [[Markham Street]] in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened at the southwest corner of Markham and Scott streets in 1841 under Major [[James C. Anthony]]. The three-story hotel held twenty-eight bedrooms, two parlors, and a sixty foot dining room. The hotel advertised "accommodations unsurpassed by any establishment west of the Alleghanies." The hotel also advertised that it had ice year-round. [[David Skelton]] managed a brickwork stable for the hotel nearby. It was also the headquarters of the general stage office for the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]].
-It was also the headquarters of the [[General Stage Office]]. The hotel is famous as the headquarters of Governor [[Elisha Baxter] during the [[Brooks-Baxter War]] of 1874.
+The hotel is famous as the headquarters of Governor [[Elisha Baxter]] during the [[Brooks-Baxter War]] of 1874.
-Anthony House had twenty-two rooms, a dining hall measuring sixty feet in length, as well as meeting space. The inn was destroyed by fire in 1875 or 1876.
+Anthony House had twenty-two rooms, a dining hall measuring sixty feet in length, as well as meeting space. The inn was destroyed by fire in 1875 or 1876. The hotel stood where the [[Capital Hotel]] stands today.
 Other early hotels included the [[City Hotel]] operated by [[C.L. Jeffries]], the [[Eagle House]], the [[National House]], [[Franklin House]], and the [[Washington and Rock Hotel]].
 ==References==
 *Tom W. Dillard, "Early Arkansas Hotels Would Appall Today's Travelers," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' February 10, 2008.
 *Ira Don Richards, ''Story of a Rivertown: Little Rock in the Nineteenth Century'' (1969), 56.

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−	The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn in on Markham Street in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened in 1841. It was also the headquarters of the [[General Stage Office]].	+	The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn on [[Markham Street]] in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened in 1841. It was also the headquarters of the [[General Stage Office]].

	Anthony House had twenty-two rooms, a dining hall measuring sixty feet in length, as well as meeting space. The inn was destroyed by fire in 1876.		Anthony House had twenty-two rooms, a dining hall measuring sixty feet in length, as well as meeting space. The inn was destroyed by fire in 1876.

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 The '''Anthony House''' was the first public inn in on Markham Street in downtown Little Rock. The Anthony House opened in 1841. It was also the headquarters of the [[General Stage Office]].
-Anthony House had twenty-two rooms, a dining hall measuring sixty feet in length, as well as meeting space. Other early hotels included the [[City Hotel]] operated by [[C.L. Jeffries]], the [[Eagle House]], the [[National House]], [[Franklin House]], and the [[Washington and Rock Hotel]].
+Anthony House had twenty-two rooms, a dining hall measuring sixty feet in length, as well as meeting space. The inn was destroyed by fire in 1876.
 ==References==