Elms Hotel

The Elms Hotel is a hotel in Excelsior Springs, Missouri where Harry S. Truman spent the night of his successful Presidential election in 1948. The first hotel was built on a hill overlooking the town and its mineral springs in 1888. It burned in 1898. The next Elms opened in 1909 and in burned in 1910. The current Elms opened in 1912. It is on the National Register of Historic Places (...)