The history of Hotel La More/The Bisbee Inn predates its actual construction. Acquired from Mexico in 1853 as part of the Gadsden Purchase, Lots 11 and 12, Block One, of the Bisbee town site were deeded to the City of Bisbee by the U.S. Government in 1904 and purchased by J.P. Hill in 1905. Early photographs of this site on Chihuahua Hill show two wooden buildings, described in directories of the time as housing "rooms" and "furnished rooms." As Bisbee prospered and grew, the dirt track leading along the lower slope of Chihuahua Hill, originally called "OK Trail," became OK Street. Lots 11 and 12 were sold to Mrs. S.P. Bedford who, in 1916, constructed a substantial, 24-room hotel building on the site of the wooden buildings which had been destroyed by fire. By 1920 the Hotel La More Annex was in operation upstairs in the Muheim Block above the present day Brewery restaurant, under the management of Mrs. La More's daughter Mamie. The La More family was itself in residence in the main hotel. Around 1922 or 1923 the lease reverted to Mrs. Bedford who continued to run the hotel under the La More name through the mid '20s. From 1925 until 1936 it operated under another owner until it was sold to Grace V. Waters who ran the establishment as the Waters Hotel.