The historic Museum Club in Flagstaff, Arizona, has lowered its asking price by $100,000 and added its business operations to the listing.
The Route 66 landmark closed after Halloween night. Da Vinci Realty is now listing the property at $2.2 million, which includes the trade name, furniture, fixtures, equipment, historic signage and the liquor license, reported the Arizona Daily Sun.
The Museum Club’s contents had been scheduled for auction in early November, but that was canceled. One piece of the operations, however, was taken away:
Though the auction for all of the items inside the building on Nov. 8 was canceled the day of the Museum Club’s final day of operations, the back bar was removed in the days prior to the business closing. The Museum Club posted on its Facebook page that the back bar had been sent to Cincinnati, Ohio, where it was originally built “by Brunswick in the 1880s.” According to multiple posts on Facebook, the bar had been brought to the Museum Club after it was auctioned off following the closure of Chugger’s in 1987.
The business operations for the Museum Club had been originally listed for sale in September, with the bar’s Facebook page posting that the Museum Club business “can control the property for another seven years according to the lease with the property owner.”
Dean Eldredge originally opened the Museum Club as a taxidermy museum in 1931. He described the structure as “the biggest log cabin in the world,” “the biggest log cabin in the nation,” or “the biggest log cabin in Arizona.”
The Museum Club earned fame when Don and Thorna Scott bought it in the early 1960s and booked music legends such as Willie Nelson, Wynn Stewart, Wanda Jackson, Waylon Jennings and Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.
In the last decade or so, the Museum Club endured several closures and ownership changes because of the COVID-19 pandemic and financial issues.
(Image of the Museum Club in Flagstaff, Arizona, via da Vinci Realty)