The Rockefellers, the Roosevelts, and the Kennedys have all stayed at the Arizona Inn.

But it is more than just a retreat for the rich and famous.

After 95 years, the storied hotel serves as a piece of Tucson history, standing the test of time in a quiet neighborhood, northeast of the University of Arizona.

Isabella Greenway opened the Arizona Inn on Dec. 18, 1930.

Her great-grandson and one-time owner of the Inn, Will Conroy, details why she opened the Inn near the U of A.

"She wanted a small, home-like cottage hotel to give her guests privacy, quiet and sunshine," Conroy said.

Arizona's first-ever congresswoman, and a bridesmaid at Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt's wedding, Greenway was a visionary.

In the 1920s, Greenway started a successful business, the Arizona Hut, that empl

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