Built during the silver boom and still standing on the corner of Harrison Avenue, the Delaware has been putting up travelers since 1886. The lobby is marble, brass and leather. The rooms upstairs are iron beds, tall windows and the whole of the Sawatch Range out the glass.

Thirty-six rooms, no two alike—queens, kings, doubles and two-bedroom suites, all on the second and third floors, each with its own character. Downstairs is a lobby bar with Chesterfields, chandeliers and a long bar just off the lobby. The desk is staffed around the clock.

We spent decades in restaurants and hospitality before we found the Delaware. What drew us in was the chance to look after the whole of someone's stay under one roof: a room, a good meal, a warm welcome at the desk, in the highest city in North America. The building has stood on this corner since 1886 and it has held a lot of people since.

Our job is to keep faith with that. We are restoring what should be restored and adding what the place has needed for years, carefully, room by room. At the Historic Delaware Hotel there are no strangers, only friends and family we have not met yet.