Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-08
NEWS.
The BAY slate Homo.

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A. II. Foster, who have leased the house for a
term of years. The building is situated at the
corner of Main and Exchange Streets, in the very
centre of business, and in the immediate vicinity
of the Post Office 1t has front upon Main
Street of one hundred feet, and upon Exchange
Street of one hundred and fifty feet. 1t is built
Of brick, in the most thorough and substantial
manner, and coated with mastic, giving it the APP
pearance of the finest free stone.
The building is four stories in height. In the
centre of the basement story is the main entrance,
which opens into an elegant hall, twenty feet
wide and fifty feet long, with vaulted roof, sup
ported by Corinthian pillars. The hall is paved
with marble. At the further end, and command
ing view of the front entrance,s the Office, which
is so arranged as to enable the clerk, or proprie-
tors, to communicate with, or receive commune
cations from every part of the house, at a mo-
ments notice. The Dining Room is on the same
floor with the Office. 1t is large, well lighted and
ventilated. and is capable of seating three hun
bred persons. Connected with the dining-room
are convenient ante-rooms, and private entrances
by which ladies may enterfrom any part of the
house, without passing through the main hall or
any of the more public rooms Of the building.
Three spacious parlors occupy the whole front
of the house, which are so arranged as to be eons
verted into one single room, if desired. The par
lor windows are made to open upon balcony that
extends along the whole front of the building,
where guests in pleasant weather may enjoy the
air and the street views without Interruption
The reading room, smoking room, and reception
rooms front on Exchange street, and are reached
by a short fight of steps from the main hall
They aie spacious apartments, and furnished in
an appropriate manner. Besides these rooms,
there are sixteen parlors with sleeping rooms at
tached, all of which are furnished with hot and
cold water, which may be drawn at the pleasure
Of the guests at any time.
The whole number of rooms in the house is
one hundred and thirty, and in their construc-
ton, no pains appears to have been spared to
make them perfectly adapted for the purposes for
which they wereydesigned. The culinary depart
ment, and the laundry department, embrace all
the modern improvements and facilities for cook
ing, baking, and washing, and it seems impossi-
BILE for human ingenuity to devise anything far
Their to enable the proprietors to provide for the
confusion, even when the house is crowded 10 its
utmostcapacity.
The Bay State Hotel was erected by compa-
ny, incorporated by the Legislature in the spring
of 1858. The house and buildings occupy thirty
six thousand square feet of land, and the cost of
the lot was thirty-eight thousand dollars. g The
building has cost in round numbers one hundred
thousand dollars, and the stable five Thousand
dollars. The corporation supplied the furniture
to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, ana the
lessees supply the remainder. The parlors are
surnished most sumptuously, and neatness and
good taste seems to pervade the arrangements
and furnishings of the whole house. eye
The Bay State was designed by VIM. Wash
burn, of Boston, the well known architect of the
TremontsIemple, the Revere House, and other
first class buildings, and as long it stands, it
will be monument Of his skill and Judgment
The foundations were laid by Amos R Black of
Worcester, and the brick work was laid up by
MessrR. Potter 4 Fuller. The carpenter work
was done by the day under the supervision of a
committee of the corporation, who are practical
men, and know how work should be done. The
plumbing work, which required in its execution
more than twelve tons Of lead pipe, was performed
by H. w. Miller ESQ. OF this city, and it is need
less for us to say that is done in the most work
manlike manner. Messrs. Holman Ross, also
af this etg performed the contrast tSE WTt
it has bsen done ELECTS the praise of all behold
ers. The steam works by which the whole build
ing is warmed were constructed and put in by
Messrs. J. & ]. Walworth of Boston.
The furniture and mattresses, of the house are
all from the establishment of Messrs. Buckley &
Bancroft, of Bancroft Messrs. B. L. Harden &
Com any of this city supplied the carpets, and
also all the linen and bed coverings of the estab.
lishment, and the crockery, glass ware, and fix
Brown & FIRTH also of this city.
We hope and trust that an establishment got
up as this has been, by public spirited citizens,
and with no view to speculation, in order to sup
ply TO the numerous strangers who come within
our limits for purposes of business or pleasure,
accommodations commensurate with the impor-
lance of the place, and their reasonable desires,
and equal in all respects the best hotels of other
northern cities, may have generous support
We have no misgivings that the house will be as
well kept as it is well provided, and will take this
occasion to say to our friends and readers, who
have so often approached our city because of its
want of good hotel, that the day for their re.
proaches has gone by. Worcester has at last
frst class hotel, where the traveller may find com
fort and repose, with good food, clean beds, and
polite attendants. The Bay State House is open.
The larder is well supplied. Messrs. Clifford &
Foster will give you cordial welcome, and when
you visit Worcester, walk up to the office, regis.
ter your mes,and see if you cannot enjoy your
selves.
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