Home Comfort Hotel
The Home Comfort Hotel was built between 1882 and 1884 and was the hub of social life in St. Elmo. Anna Stark ran it as a sixteen-room boarding house, along with the Stark Brothers Mercantile — a general store, post office and telegraph office, all under one roof, all in one place.
The Stark family stayed when everyone else left. They bought up the abandoned houses, rented them out as holiday cabins, and kept the place alive long after the silver had run out. Annabelle, the last of the Starks, ran the hotel until the 1950s. Then the post office closed, and St. Elmo gradually became a ghost town.
The façade still shines today.


























