THE STORY OF CRIMSON HOTEL The Crimson Hotel was built on the site of millionaire J. Blackwood’s mansion in the late 1880’s. While built as a luxury lodging, the hotel never truly saw a success until it’s renovation in early 1920’s. The hotel entered its golden years at the start of the 1930’s and remained a staple of luxury accommodation until the late 1940’s, when a series of accidents involving the Barker family, which ended with the death of its two children, plagued its reputation and caused the hotel to enter a steady decline and be shutdown and abandoned in 1954….