Dennis Hotel - Atlantic City
The Dennis Hotel was once one of the most magnificent hotels in Atlantic City. Presently it is part of Bally's and is still in use as a hotel. However it had become somewhat rundown and hid behind a series of stores that had been built in front of it on the boardwalk.
Recently Bally's decided to renovate and upgrade the Dennis. This $24M restoration project included tearing down the stores in front of it, thus opening up the Dennis's courtyard to the boardwalk and renovating and modenizing the hotel rooms.
Dennis Hotel
Dennis Hotel - 2007
Dennis Hotel - 2009
For many years the Dennis Hotel has been hid behind a row of stores on the boardwalk. As the stores came down the beautiful courtyard of the Dennis Hotel was opened up providing direct access to the boardwalk.
Dennis Hotel - 2011
The Dennis Hotel courtyard is now open to the boardwalk.
Dennis Hotel - 2011
As of the summer of 2011 the Dennis hotel has a new seafood restaurant, "Harry's," which juts out into the Dennis courtyard.
Dennis Hotel Room - 2011
The Dennis Hotel rooms have been completely renovated and modernized. Every room has a flat-screen television, refrigerators, safes and new bedding, including top-of-the-line orthopedic mattresses with pillowtops for extra comfort and high-thread count top sheets.
Photographs via postcards of the Dennis Hotel during the days of Atlantic City's glorious past are shown below.
Dennis Hotel - 1921
In 1921 the Dennis Hotel was one of the most magnificent hotels anywhere.
Postcard by E.C. Kropp Co. - from the collection of Thomas Topham.
The Dennis started out as a two-room guesthouse in 1867. It was continually expanded and upgraded until it turned into a 550 room palace.
Dennis Hotel Lobby
Lumitone Photoprint - from the collection of Thomas Topham.
On the back of the postcard: Share the friendly comaraderie of luxurious ease and comfort that pervades the great Lounge, with its unmatched view of Boardwalk and Atlantic across the hotel's front lawns and Garden Terrace.
Dennis Hotel Solarium
Postcard by E.C. Kropp Co. - from the collection of Thomas Topham.
The Solarium at the Dennis Hotel
Dennis Hotel Garden Terrace
Photograph by H.W. Hannau - from the collection of Thomas Topham.
On the back of the card: Colorful flowers, umbrellas and cabanas mark this unusual picture of The Dennis Hotel terrace with Boardwalk and Beach in foreground.
