Michael Hickey
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Unknown Unknown po1356pa.jpg Yavapai County People & Family Collection, Folder Burke & Hickey Families & Hotel, PC-50 B&W 1700-1356-0001 po1356pa Print 5x7 Photo Collections 1880s Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & ArchivesDescription
Photo of Prescott businessman and hotel keeper Michael J. Hickey (b. 1853 - d. 1910).
In 1890 Hickey and his partner, Dennis A. Burke (b. 1859 - d. 1918), purchased two lots on the southwest corner of Montezuma and Gurley Streets and hired a Phoenix architect, Samuel E. Patton, to design a two-story hotel. Hickey, an Irish immigrant, had arrived in Prescott in 1883 and served in the Army at Fort Verde and Whipple Barracks. Construction proceeded quickly, and the new Burke Hotel opened with much fanfare on New Year’s Day, 1891. It was designed in a remarkable forward-thinking manner, with bedrooms “single and en suite,” furnished in the latest style. It was billed as the “Finest, Largest, and Best Appointed Hotel in Northern Arizona.”
The Burke Hotel was destroyed during the Fire of 1900 that ravaged Whiskey Row. When reconstruction of the hotel began in 1901, the owners installed a large number of fire extinguishers and iron fire escapes at the ends of the hallways. In 1907, Burke sold his interest in the hotel to Hickey, who rechristened it the Hotel St. Michael.
Hickey died on July 23, 1910 of pulmonary tuberculosis.
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