3D print the Gadsden Hotel
A free, printable model of the Gadsden Hotel, a boxy flat-roofed building with a lettered rooftop sign, with the low buildings and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Gadsden Hotel
The Gadsden Hotel, a historic hotel in Douglas, Arizona, has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976. The hotel opened in 1907 and is named for the Gadsden Purchase. At five stories and 160 rooms, it served cattlemen, ranchers, miners and businessmen as a home away from home. Fire leveled the building, and the El Paso architect Henry Trost rebuilt it in 1929.
The lobby has a staircase of solid white Italian marble alongside four tall marble columns. On one wall of the mezzanine, a stained glass mural of the Southwest Desert by the artisan Ralph Baker stretches forty-two feet. Baker was a fifth-generation artisan who studied under Louis Comfort Tiffany. Just beneath the window hangs a big oil painting by Audley Dean Nicols, and stained glass skylights in vaulted form span the whole length of the lobby.
Legend says the hotel is haunted, particularly Room 333, and television ghost shows have featured it, among them a 1995 Sightings episode. Movies have featured it too, including Terminal Velocity and Ruby Jean and Joe. Thornton Wilder came for one night in May 1962 while his car was repaired, and ended up staying two months because he liked the hotel and its surroundings.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 8 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 11 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Thin rooftop lettering
- The hotel's name appears as thin lettering on slim posts above the roof. Print friendly adapts it to the print scale, while Full detail keeps the letters on a larger print.
- Tiny window rows
- Rows of tiny window recesses cover the walls. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep them crisp, and a bigger print size makes them easier to see.
- One piece with the ground
- The Gadsden Hotel is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Gadsden Hotel takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Gadsden Hotel is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Gadsden Hotel STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Gadsden Hotel grows with the print: about 7 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
