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Built in 1923 %u201cwith a radio outfit for the benefit of guests,%u201d a coffee shop, a restaurant, and various meeting spaces. It hosted such people as Ed Sullivan and Robert F. Kennedy. Beginning in the early 1970%u2019s, it served as an office building and apartment complex, but was completely renovated and became a Hilton Hotel in 2021.Built in 1888 as the Hotel Golden, then named Hotel Osborne, then Indiana Hotel, then Hotel Indiana, then Elkhart Institute Dormitory, then Mallers Hotel, and finally Frontier Inn, which closed in 1983 as unsafe. It has now been renovated and converted for multi-use with offices, restaurant, and living quarters. When it was the Hotel Indiana, it was owned by Maurice Truex. He and his wife lost their 3-month old son to pneumonia in 1915, and their 14-year-old daughter, Geraldine DeVere, to myasthenia gravis in 1935.