Transparencies and Negatives Collection: Historic photographs. Ideal Hotel: Part of this building was an original Rappite house which over the years had been used as a post office and boarding house with a stagecoach stop before becoming the Ideal Hotel. John R. Hugo bought the property from E. J. Rodgers, sometime after 1869, and turned it into The Hugo House. This Boarding house was a stop along the Stagecoach route between Mt. Vernon and Princeton, Indiana, called City Transfer. At some point, between 1888 and 1893, J. W. Wade Livery was added to the property on the west side but was removed by 1899 by which time the property had become The Ideal Hotel. Unfortunately, the hotel burned down in 1913. This photo shows a group of men standing on the Granary Street side of the building after it had been burned.