Time Travelers Welcome: Tour Louis Dupuy's Hotel de Paris

Explore a restored and preserved French inn in the Colorado Rockies.

Tour A Time Capsule

Peek inside the remarkably restored and preserved rooms of Louis Dupuy's Hotel de Paris (1875). Our immersive tour invites history lovers to examine the original furnishings and architectural details of a 19th century French inn built by Chinese laborers for ambitious travelers chasing financial opportunities or sight seeing in the Colorado Rockies.

Learn how the Mysterious Frenchman Louis Dupuy (the Best Cook in the Colorado Territory) transformed a frontier bakery and boarding house into one of the most refined establishments in the Western United States--serving oysters in the mountains, cultivating European elegance, and creating a gathering place for conversation, commerce, and culture.

From the commercial kitchen to the guest rooms, each space reveals stories of resilience, reinvention, and everyday life in a booming silver mining town. If you are passionate about preservation, material culture, and humanity found in historic spaces, this tour offers an authentic, thoughtfully interpreted journey into Colorado's past.

Choose a guided tour to uncover deeper stories behind the rooms and artifacts, or explore at your own pace with a self-guided tour. Either way, every discovery is another stamp on your journey into the past.