Allison F. Page is described as the developer and evidently the builder of the fashionable Queen Anne style hotel with its striking corner tower. It was located beside Nash Square and convenient to the railroad depot. Page’s biographer said, “It is known to his intimate friends that he built the Park Hotel in Raleigh because he wanted to see in the capital of his State a first class hotel without a saloon.” (J. N. Cole, “Allison Francis Page” in Ashe, ed., Biographical Dictionary of North Carolina.)