 Grey's famous novel "The Call of the Canyon" was written in the recently renovated Zane Grey Ballroom on the third floor of the hotel.A beautiful sunroom occupied part of the top floor and was used for dances and parties, while numerous civic groups engaged the downstairs.A three-sided balcony, visible in the 1905 photograph hanging in the Ballroom was damaged by fire and removed in 1929, along with the original cupola.