Teller House

	Teller House Teller House is a historic hotel in Central City, Colorado. Built in 1872, the building now serves as a restaurant. The bar at the Teller House is well known for the " Face on the Barroom Floor," a painting of a woman's face on the wooden floor, done in 1936 by local artist Herndon Davis, as a joke after being fired by the Teller House. The building opened in 1991 as a casino, which operated until 2000. A new management company reopened the casino in 2005, but it closed again later that year. See also List of casinos in Colorado This is a list of casinos in Colorado. List of casinos Gallery Ameristar Black Hawk.JPG, Ameristar Black Hawk See also List of casinos in the United States * List of casino hotels References External links * {{Colorado Casin ... * National Register of Historic Places listings in Gilpin County, Colorado References External links Rouge Steakhouse at The Teller House - Central City, CO [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Central City, Colorado The historic City of Central, commonly known as Central City, is a home rule municipality located in Gilpin and Clear Creek counties, Colorado, United States. Central City is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Gilpin County. The city population was 779, all in Gilpin County, at the 2020 United States Census. The city is a historic mining settlement founded in 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and came to be known as the "Richest Square Mile on Earth". Central City and the adjacent city of Black Hawk form the federally designated Central City/Black Hawk Historic District. The city is now a part of the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Corridor. History On May 6, 1859, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, John H. Gregory found a gold-bearing vein (the Gregory Lode) in Gregory Gulch between Black Hawk and Central City. Within two months many other veins were discovered, including the Bates, Gunnell, Kans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Face On The Barroom Floor (painting) ''The Face on the Barroom Floor'' is a painting on the floor of the Teller House Bar in Central City, Colorado, United States. It was painted in 1936 by Herndon Davis. The Face On The Barroom Floor was referenced in the Three Stooges short "Movie Maniacs" in 1936 Story of the painting Davis had been commissioned by the Central City Opera, Central City Opera Association to paint a series of paintings for the Central City Opera House; he was also requested to do some work at the Teller House. One afternoon at the bar he became embroiled in a heated argument with Ann Evans, the project director, about the manner in which his work should be executed. The upshot of the fight was that Davis was told to quit, or else he would be fired. According to one version of the story, the painting was the suggestion of a busboy named Joe Libby; knowing that Davis would soon be fired, he suggested that the artist "give them something to remember [him] by". In Davis' own words, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]