The 700 South Broadway building which houses BB’s was known as Phil’s Hotel as late as 1969 and has a very colorful past. Since its original construction in the mid-1800s, in an area then known as “Frenchtown” with a further 3 story addition at the turn of the century, the location has been used as a home, boarding house, reception hall, mercantile, millinery, transient hotel, bar, diner, and a house of ill repute with 37 rooms between the 2nd and 3rd floors. Continued….