John Kahler purchased the former home of Rochester department store magnate E. A. Knowlton at the corner of today’s First Avenue Southwest and West Center Street in Rochester. After remodeling the house, he opened the new, modern 60-room Kahler Hotel on May 4, 1907.
Within six years, an East Annex and South Wing expanded the hotel to 140 guest rooms, which featured Oriental rugs, brass beds, and telephones in each room. Other amenities included a music room, four dining rooms, three sunrooms, and an outdoor park with a patio and pagoda, all for $3 to $10 per day, American Plan.
According to John Kahler’s plan, the Kahler (known as the Damon Hotel after 1921) also featured a surgical suite on its third floor, an extension of Mayo Clinic, convalescent rooms attended by nurses from the Kahler School of Nursing, along with standard guest rooms, making it the world’s first triple-service hotel.
“Lens on History” is a weekly photo feature by Lee Hilgendorf, a volunteer at the History Center of Olmsted County.
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