Christopher McCord, an Ellinwood, KS native, is the proud owner of The Historic Wolf Hotel. He never dreamed he would own The Wolf Hotel, but now he is living his life around it. With lots of hopes and dreams for the future, McCord has repurposed and restored the Wolf Hotel.

The first claim was staked in 1872 when it was certain the railroad would be completed nearby. The railroad was finished the same year and the city was named after Colonel John Ellinwood, a civil engineer working for the Santa Fe railroad. Ellinwood became a fast growing community of mostly descendants of southern German/Austrians. Located on the Santa Fe Trail, the town was a social and cultural center of the 1890's. German heritage is shown by the architecture of Main Street buildings and the underground shops of yesteryear. Brick streets are carefully maintained. Today, a community of 2,100 and located in the center of Kansas, it provides a warm, small town environment with many features and services of much larger communities.