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The Stanley Hotel is a 140-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, United States, about five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. It was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley , co-founder of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company , and opened on July 4, 1909, as a resort for upper-class Easterners and a health retreat for ...
The Stanley Hotel (currently called the Sarova Stanley) is a five-star hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.It is the oldest hotel in the city, having been established in 1902 by English businesswoman Mayence Bent, when the city was a railway halt.
The festival was named for the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park where it is held, a neo-Georgian hotel that was the inspiration and setting of Stephen King's horror novel The Shining. The festival also held a student film competition titled, The Stanley Dean's Cup. [citation needed]
PEOPLE’s Julie Jordan went to Colorado for an immersive Halloween experience themed to Blumhouse films ‘Freaky’, ‘Happy Death Day’, ‘Insidious’ and ‘The Purge’
Freelan Oscar Stanley (June 1, 1849 – October 2, 1940) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, hotelier, and architect. He made his fortune in the manufacture of photographic plates but is best remembered as the co-founder, with his brother Francis Edgar Stanley, of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company which built steam-powered automobiles until 1920.
The Stanley Hotel, which hosted King in 1974, served as the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel. After writing Carrie and 'Salem's Lot , which are both set in small towns in King's native Maine, King was looking for a change of pace for his next book: "I wanted to spend a year away from Maine so that my next novel would have a different sort of ...