The Red Garter Inn

Completed in October 1897, Tetzlaff leased the ground floor saloon to Michael Reneke with the brothel upstairs ‘to be held separately’. A year later Reneke sublet the back two rooms and thirty-two feet of the backyard to Fong Chee and Kim Kee, to operate a ‘(pork)chop house and restaurant’. This area included a lean-to BBQ shed, a two hole outhouse and a small ‘apartment’ that operated as an opium den. This little ‘China Town’ along with the rest of ‘Saloon Row’ ensured Williams reputation as one of the toughest towns in Northern Arizona. The huge 1901 fire that burned all of the buildings to the east, also took these structures and the owner’s wood framed tailor shop on the south end of the property. Tetzlaff’s two story brick building stopped this devastating blaze and when it was rebuilt over the next three months, the rest of Saloon Row and the owner’s tailor shop were of brick and rock construction.