About Desoto House
At the time of its conception, the Desoto House was built to benefit the numerous individuals arriving in Galena which was thriving as a major mining and exchange center. The first inn building comprised of five stories and a lower level. They gloated 225 visitor rooms, a gentleman's perusing room, ladies' parlors, a 300 situate feasting corridor, a kitchen with types of gear for bolstering hundreds, and it claim gas works for lighting lobbies, eating rooms, and open regions. In expansion, retail stores, workplaces, a cantina, and a bowling alley also found their domestic within the Desoto House. They outfitted the lodging at a fetched of $15,000 in trade for a two year rent-free contract. Furniture included velvet carpets, rosewood furniture, marble -topped tables, glossy silk damask window ornaments, and a "double circular seven octave carved rosewood Piano Forte.