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Note: Frederick Gross built a hotel at 190 Front Street, a Marietta landmark. The hotel opened in 1861 as the six-room Union Hotel. Frederick died five years later. His widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Cisler Gross, became the proprietor and named the hotel, the St. Cloud. The building was enlarged in 1891. It had 72 rooms, heated by steam, and boasted a lobby and dining room. The rates of $3.00 a day included three meals. Horses with a surrey were sent to meet the guests arriving on the eight
daily trains. At the turn of the century, the St. Cloud included among its residents many men prominent in the area's oil boom.
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