Events & private dining

The ground floor of an 1886 hotel, yours for the evening

The Delaware has three spaces to host in: the dining room, our former restaurant, with its long table under a pressed tin ceiling; the lobby next door, with its bar, piano and grand staircase; and the mezzanine at the top of the stairs, a smaller room for about thirty guests. Book one, or take the whole ground floor. Your guests can sleep upstairs and walk downstairs to the party.

Plan an eventContact the hotel
The long table in the dining room at the Delaware Hotel, set for dinner
1886
The building
3
Event spaces
36
Guest rooms upstairs
700
Harrison Avenue
The dining room at the Delaware Hotel, tables set with candles and flowers

The dining room

A private dining room on Harrison Avenue

Our former restaurant has become a private dining room: a long live edge table down the middle for the head of the party, smaller tables along the windows, exposed brick hung with old portraits, a pressed tin ceiling, and a bar of its own. It suits a rehearsal dinner, a birthday, a board dinner or a holiday party, and it closes off from the lobby when you want it to.

The long table under the pendant lights
The long table
The arched doorway into the dining room
Through the arch
The glass partition and tin ceiling
The tin ceiling
Candles on the long table
Set for dinner

An evening here

What a dinner at the Delaware looks like

A private dinner in the dining room: the long table set end to end, candles and flowers down the middle, cocktails from the bar, and a room that gets warmer as the night goes on. Bring the people, and we will have the room ready.

Plan a dinner
A guest at the long table by candlelight, at a private dinner
A toast at the table
Guests under the portraits
Candles and flowers on the table
Guests laughing at the table
A cocktail being poured at the bar
A guest at the candlelit table

Photographs by Morgan Moutrie

The lobby at the Delaware Hotel, with the bar and the grand staircase

The lobby

The room the whole town remembers

Chandeliers, leather sofas, an upright piano, a bar, and the staircase everybody photographs. The lobby is where the Delaware has welcomed people since 1886, and it is the right room for a reception, a cocktail hour, live music or a wedding that wants a little grandeur without a ballroom.

The stairs up to the mezzanine, with a light in every step, under the chandelier

The mezzanine

A smaller room at the top of the stairs

Up the stairs beside the bar, with a light set into the center of every step, the mezzanine sits above the lobby. It holds about thirty guests, which makes it the right size for a shower, a small reception, a cocktail hour before dinner downstairs, or a small meeting.

The lounge
The lounge
The piano in the lobby
The piano
Chandeliers in the lobby
Under the chandeliers
The paneled sitting room off the lobby
The sitting room

What we host

Gatherings of every kind

Weddings
Ceremonies and receptions in the lobby, rehearsal dinners at the long table, and rooms upstairs for the wedding party and the guests who came the farthest.
Private dinners
Birthdays, anniversaries, holiday parties and dinners for a company or a club, at the long table or across the whole dining room.
Meetings and retreats
A day of meetings in a room with real windows and real history, with lodging upstairs and Harrison Avenue outside the door when the day is done.
Celebrations of life
A warm, dignified room for a memorial or a reception, in a building that has been part of Leadville for 140 years.
Room blocks
Hosting something elsewhere in town? We can hold a block of rooms for your guests, with one point of contact for the whole group.

Plan your event

Tell us what you have in mind

Send us the date, the number of guests and the kind of event, and we will come back with a proposal and a time to walk the rooms.

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