Our Story
The Beginning
When the town of St. Cloud was founded, its first grand building went up fast. The original St. Cloud Hotel opened on September 17, 1909, framed with timber salvaged from the Disston Sugar Mill on the lake.
One hundred days later it burned to the ground. The town answered by rebuilding it fireproof, in masonry, and the new St. Cloud Hotel opened on September 16, 1910. That building is the one standing today.
Timeline
Built in the town's founding year from Disston Sugar Mill salvage, the hotel opens on September 17 and anchors the new main street. On December 22 it is destroyed by fire.
Rebuilt in masonry within nine months, the new hotel opens on September 16, 1910. It will stand for the next century.
Through boom years and quiet ones, the hotel hosts travelers, dances, dinners and generations of St. Cloud life at the corner of New York Avenue and 10th Street.
After more than a century in service, the building closes and waits for its next chapter.
A complete restoration is in its finishing phase. Structural work and a new metal roof are done, interiors are being built out, and the hotel is being prepared to open with 36 boutique rooms, a restaurant, a cafe, a ballroom and a lounge.
The Restoration
A building like this cannot be built again. The restoration keeps the 1910 masonry shell, the proportions and the streetscape, and renews everything inside it, from foundations and utilities to the last interior finish.
The result will be something Central Florida does not have: a genuine historic hotel, finished to today's standard, in a walkable downtown.
Be There When It Opens