Coronado Motel

Pueblo, United States

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Built around 1940–41 by Ralph and Anna Ferris in Pueblo, Colorado, the Coronado Lodge exemplifies Pueblo Revival-style mid-century motel architecture. The building displays the style's characteristic features: stepped massing, flat roofs with parapets, stuccoed adobe and concrete block walls, projecting vigas, portales with corbelled brackets, and flat-headed windows—all evoking the history and romance of the Southwest. Particularly suited to Pueblo's historically large Hispano population, the motel emerged during the post-war boom in automobile-based leisure travel. Its significance extends beyond architecture: the Coronado offered accommodations to African American travelers from at least 1946 onward and advertised in The Negro Travelers' Green Book from 1957 to 1967, becoming only the second Colorado motel listed in that publication. Operating as an integrated facility before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it remained one of only three Colorado motels featured in the Green Book throughout the 1960s. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.