The origins of the Hotel Martin date back to 1854, when it was established as the Robinson House. The hotel was known by this name until 1885 when it was renamed the Holleran House until 1893, and then the Hotel Noble in 1901. The building's final iteration came in 1910 when proprietor Henry H. Martin changed the name from Hotel Noble to Hotel Martin on August 30, 1910. The structure was rebuilt for $7,000 at that time. The building included 23 rooms to provide lodging during a boom in Fulton during the 1910s related to the construction of the Lyons-Fulton Bridge and the establishment of the Lincoln Highway, both of which brought a high volume of tourists through the city. During the reconstruction, the Fulton Journal stated, “It will be an attractive building with its bungalow style of room with eight dormer windows, and a spacious veranda on the south side...Fulton will have a first-class hotel." In addition, the hotel served visiting members of the fraternal and charitable organization, the Mystic Workers, alongside railroad passengers who were boarding steamboats from Fulton with their destinations to visit the ‘Saints’—St. Paul to the north and St. Louis to the south.

 

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