New Sheridan Hotel & Opera House in Telluride

This Telluride landmark was built in 1895. For fine dining, the Continental Room had 16 velvet-curtained booths, each equipped with phones so diners could call for service and not be interrupted frequently by waiters. The Sheridan Bar remains much the same with its cherry wood bar imported from Austria. William Jennings Bryan delivered a speech, though not his famous "Cross of Gold," on a platform in front of the Sheridan. The Opera House, an exquisite theater with a Venetian scene painted on its roll curtain by J. Erickson, was added in 1914.