RIPLEY HOTEL
26 N. Main Street
SAPULPA, CREEK COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

• 1905 Business Directory - Mrs. Ada Ripley, Prop.

• 1907 City Directory - M. C. Bowers, Manager 
    with George W. and Ada Ripley living behind hotel on Hodson Street

• 1910 City Directory - J. J. Ripley, Manager
    George W. listed as Assessor living at 18 W Thompson

• 1911 City Directory - Charles Nelson, Manager

• 1917 Ripley Hotel was torn down prior to 1917, as L. S. Leachman and Wilton Witt built a new building on the site, Sapulpa Motors. That building still stands and is now [2002] occupied by Williams Sewing Center and Furniture.

According to the Sapulpa Historical Society Historian, the hotel was first called the Owen Hotel, then the Gladstone Hotel and then Ripley. The first marriage in Sapulpa took place in the Ripley Hotel.

The Ripley Hotel was located on North Main and Hobson Streets across the street from the Virden Hotel.

Anyone have a photo of the hotel they would like to donate?

Sources: 
James J. Mars, Indian Pioneer Interview, July 12, 1937.
Sapulpa Historical Society, Sapulpa, Oklahoma.