Known today as the New Windsor Hotel, the 6th Avenue Hotel — the Windsor Hotel — fills the corner in front of you. This building is the only 19th century hotel still in use in the Phoenix original town-site and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It was erected in 1893 by Phoenix pioneer and businessman A.D. Walsh on the corner of what is now 6th Avenue and Adams Street.
Its proper address is 546 W. Adams Street. Originally it was a two-story brick Victorian-styled structure, a response to a city that had changed since incorporation in 1881. In the 1880s the coming of a railroad system helped revolutionize Phoenix’s economy and made the town the most important trade center in Arizona.
City offices moved into a new City Hall at Washington and Central in 1888, and when the territorial capital was shifted from Prescott to Phoenix in 1889, temporary territorial offices were housed in that City Hall — all pressures that made hotels and living quarters like this one necessary. Notice the brick lines of this survivor, standing at the corner of 6th Avenue and Adams Street, its proper address 546 W. Adams Street.