A small peach-colored room with a four-poster double bed, and a private bath across the hall.

Summer $75.00 Winter $115.00 Peak $140.00
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Susanna Egeria Bransford Emery Holmes
Delitch Engalicheff

Susanna, born in Richmond, Missouri and reared in California's Gold Country, came to Park City to visit friends and stayed to marry Mr. Emery, the local Postmaster and later, Speaker of the House in Utah's 31st (and last) Territorial Legislature. Their happiness endured but ended 10 years later when he died due to his alcoholic excesses on a return trip from Hawaii.

Widowhood palled after two years and Susie married Colonel Edwin F. Holmes, a wealthy Chicagoan with lumber and mining interests in Utah and Idaho. Due to his holdings in the Anchor mine, Susie became known as "Utah's Silver Queen." She lavished in travel, fine clothing, theatre and elaborate dinner parties. Her husband bought her "Amelia Palace" in Salt Lake City. This imposing Gothic structure was built by Brigham Young for his favorite wife. In 1926 they sold the palace to the Mormon Church and moved to California. After 28 years of marriage the Colonel died.

It wasn't long before she married a Serbian doctor, Radovan Delitch. Within two years his dashing ways embarrassed her and she divorced him. Impatient in his jealousy, he hung himself in his cabin aboard an Atlantic Ocean Liner.

It only took Susie a year to find her Russian Prince, thus becoming "Princess Engalicheff." She was widowed again just two years later when he died from illness.

In 1938 Susie returned to Utah for the first time in years. In 1942, at age 83 she died as her fortune dwindled. Her relatives paid for her to lay rest next to her first husband, Mr. Emery.