In 1969, the Buzby family sold the Dennis for $4 million to Gary and Lewis Malamut, owners of the adjacent Shelburne Hotel. This gave the Dennis its current form.ĭennis Hotel, 1978, showing 1929 extension on the left, 1925 rear wing and 1906 wing on the right

In 1929, with Smedley's practice having closed, Buzby hired another Philadelphia Quaker firm, Price and Walton, to design a seven-story addition to the 1910 Michigan Avenue west wing, which extended it seventy feet toward the ocean, bringing it even with the 1906 wing. In 1925, Buzby had Smedley design a huge ten-story rear wing, containing a new lobby and ballrooms, which would connect the eastern and western wings extending to the Boardwalk. In 1910, the 1892 Michigan Avenue west wing was demolished and replaced with a larger six-story wing, also designed by Smedley. Buzby hired Philadelphia architect Walter Smedley a fellow Quaker, to design a huge new six-story eastern wing, which was completed in 1906. The hotel was sold to Walter Buzby just after the turn of the twentieth century. Borton, who extended the hotel and then built a large addition in 1892, in the French chateau style. After the war, it was acquired by Joseph H. The Dennis Hotel began as a pre-Civil War cottage along Michigan Avenue, built by William Dennis. 1906, showing 1892 wing on the left and larger 1906 wing on the right, with turrets of the Blenheim behind it The hotel was then renamed the Marlborough-Blenheim.ĭennis Hotel, c. White expanded the successful resort in 1905, hiring Philadelphia architect William Lightfoot Price of Price and McLanahan to design a new, separate wing, built entirely of concrete, which opened in 1906 as the Blenheim. The Marlborough House was built in 1900 by Josiah White III between Ohio Avenue and Park Place on the Boardwalk, in the Queen Anne style. The site now occupied by Bally's was originally the location of two separate hotels: the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel and the Dennis Hotel. In 1997, The Wild Wild West Casino was opened as an expansion of Bally's.

Its historic Dennis Tower was constructed in stages between 19. Bally's is one of the largest hotels on the boardwalk with nearly 1,169 rooms. It is famous for its address of 'Park Place and the Boardwalk', two locations popularized by the board game Monopoly. The Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel stood on the site before the casino was built.

It is owned and operated by Bally's Corporation.

Bally hotel and casino