The Gadsden’s lobby is built around its original 1907 Italian marble staircase, surrounded by four Italian marble columns each capped with 14k gold leaf worth $20,000 in 1929. The entire 42-foot Tiffany stained glass mural can be seen at the top of the stairs. This space was once known as the “living room” for the cattlemen, ranchers, miners, and businessmen in the Arizona Territory. While I was photographing the lobby from a second floor balcony, I noticed my photographic colleague Tim May admiring the scene downstairs, and used him to lend a sense of scale to this 24mm wideangle image. I saw very few current guests during our shoot in this hotel, but I could easily imagine those cattle barons and mining magnates sitting here trading stories and doing business over a few cigars and some bourbon. The hotel, said to be haunted, keeps a logbook for people to record experiences with “spiritual turbulence.”