This Fire Dept hall was once a Hotel with a Notorious Past

 As you go down US 199 towards Uniontown you pass thru Connellsville and the road splits and in the section that splits sits the Morrel Volunteer Fire Dept. 

It moved to its newest location several years ago at 1232 University Drive  Dunbar Pa  after the roof collapsed at its former location  

https://www.heraldstandard.com/news/2010/jul/07/morrell-vfd-ponders-decision-on-station/

Now most people remember it being a former Victory  Ford Car Dealership

But if you take a close look at the building you can see it was something else



To the rear of the station sits part of a yellow brick structure


This yellow brick building is what is left of what was once a hotel I believe its name was The Starlite Hotel  and it had a Notorious Past 

Seems the mob ran high stakes card games in the hotel and several gamblers who won big jackpots never got to spend it having disappeared .

some day  I hope to get more info on the hotel but google has produced little.

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