Majestic Hotel

Community Service Awards Rising Star: Sarah Hutzel Sarah Hutzel is Hot Springs through and through. It is hard to find an area of the city that has not been touched by Hutzel, who was honored as a Rising Star by …

Community Service Awards Woman of the Year: Tammy Browning   Tammy Browning can afford to be comfortable. During her time as an executive broker at Trademark Real Estate in Hot Springs, Browning has proved she knows how to help families …

During the late 20th century, downtown areas across Arkansas and the U.S. experienced a period of decline that has only been rectified in recent years, but perhaps no city’s downtown decay was as dramatic as that of Hot Springs. After …

Just over a decade since the Majestic Hotel caught on fire and had to be torn down, forever changing the skyline of historic downtown Hot Springs, another landmark is set for demolition – St. Joseph’s Hospital. The former hospital sits …

With its diversity in entertainment and attractions, Hot Springs has survived through times of gangsters, floods, fires and even a global pandemic that shut down most of the country. Now, with a multimillion-dollar expansion at Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort, more …

Despite an eleventh-hour bid from VIPA’s Vijay Patel to buy the grounds that the Majestic Hotel once sat on, the Hot Springs City Board voted 6-1 Tuesday night to award the contract to Rick Wilson, CEO of R.A. Wilson Enterprises …

Arkansas company R.A. Wilson Enterprises has presented a proposal to the Hot Springs Board of Directors to build an entertainment venue on the grounds where the Majestic Hotel once stood.  The proposed “Majestic Entertainment Pavilion” would provide an entertainment space …

Is there a future for the majestic Hotel to rise again? by Jon Walker  |  Photography by Jamison Mosley Built in 1882, the hotel rose above Park and Central avenues as the Avenue Hotel. She became the Majestic six years …