Wilmington daily commercial., 1874-09-03
FIRST EDITION.
The Proposed New Hotel at II Rehoboth.

THE DRAWINGS ON EXHIBITION IN WILMINGTON
DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW BuILDINo-PRospEoIa
| FOR ITS ooMNENoEMENr-FURNIT &C.
| The drawings for the new hotel which 1t Is
proposed to erect on the grounds of the Reho-
both p-Meeting Association have been for
warded to this city and are now on exhibition at
the store of Vim Fl. Billany. They were pre-
pared by Frank f. Davis, Architect. Baltimore
are remarkably we'll executed aud give a
| very comprehensive idea OF the fine proportions
| OF the building which they are intended to re-
present.
| i he new hotel will front
200 FEET ON THE OCEAN
and extend in depth 2l5 feet. 1t will be three
stories high, and be built in two parallel wings
about 80 feet apart and Joined together by a
back building in the rear 200 feet long, or ex-
tending the whole length of the space covered
by the two wings and the intervening space be-
tween them. Between the two wings and ex-
tending from the front OF the building to the
back building will be fine croquet ground, or
lawn 50x84 feet, and around its three sides, with
covered corridor at the front end, will be built
verandah, 10 feet wide, which will ais extend
around the front Sides and almo st he whole of
the building. This verandah will ahord
ApRoMENADE ALMOST 1,00) IEET
in length, which is probably not exec lei by any
hotel in the country. Each of the wings will be
surmonnted by handsome tower, u portion of
which will be used as sleeping apartments. The
verandah will be covered by roof which is to
be continuation and portion of the roof of the
building, broken at the ends of the wings by the
towers and by elevations in the center OF the
wing, at the corners of the back build ng and in
the front OF the same between the two wings
The building Is to be of frame, we'll lighted, and
with high ceilings. Numerous entrances are
provided in all parts of the building.
THE FIRST FLOOR.
In the south wing oil tho first floor will be the
office, 24x39, and Immediately back of this will
rise a double stairway. Further back in the
same wing will be the ladies' parlor, 34x75 feet,
with private ladies' room l3xl4 feet q inches,
another stairway and the childrens dining room,
"a by sc in the and in the back building. In
the front end of the north wing will be the gem
tleman's parlor, 24x39, with double stairway
in the rear. The remaining portion OF the
first floor of this wing will be devoted to
bed rooms, 12xl3 and 9xl3, communicating,
and on both sides of d hall which runs
through the centre of the wing. Back of these,
in the back-building, 10 another stairway and
smoking room l3xl4. 9. The dining hail. 39xSO
feet is located in the bodybuilding, between the
two wings. The kitchen, pantry and laundry
are in separate building to the rear of the
bodybuilding, but adj Joining it. A prominent
feature OF the above description, and one which
will commend itself to all persons who have
had any experience in hotel life,is the etairways
four in number, two of them double, which af-
parts of the building.
THE SECOND FLOOR.
A hall way feet wide will extend through
the centre of both the wings and tho back
building, dividing them of in such manner MS
to admit of easy and appropriate subdivisions
tor lseeping apartments. There are 81 bed
rooms on this floor, many of them communica-
ting. In tize they vary from Okla. 6 to IA G
square. The nurses' dormltory is ON the sec-
ond floor of the building in the rear Of the back
building, with bath rooms &c, adjoining.
THE THIRD AND ATTIC FLOORS.
The third floor is similar in design to the
second, with the Same number Of rooms and of
the same size. lii the attic, OF elevations in the
different parts of the building are A sleeping
apartments oponing into a feet wide hall which
extends entirely around the building as on the
lower floors. There are ill all 1870 bed rooms,
capable of accommodating 500 suests.
THE FURNITURE
will be of very best class, and such as is found
only in hotels of the first grade. The patlors
will be elegantly fitted up. and tue sleeping
apartments on the first floor will contain walnut
furniture, with probably cottage sets on the up
per ones. 1t is intended that the hotel shall be
nothing inferior 10 the best at Cape May and
other seaside resorts, while an effort will be
made to keep the terms considerably below
those of other places Ii is now thought that
board will not be more than Sl5 or s20per week,
according to location Of rooms, and an effort will
be made to keep the rates as near that standard
ar possible.
LOCATION, &c.
The site for the new hotel has not yet been ae-
lected, but it is probable that it will be located
on Surf Avenue. aa near TO Rehoboth as poes-
BILE. The design is to begin work on the build
ing sometime this fall, and to have it compile
ted before the opening of another season. The
work will be done by contract, and we under
stand that proposals will be invited soon in Bal
tmore, Philadelphia and Wilmington. The es-
tmated cost of the building is 100000, which it
is proposed to raise by the issue of stock AL
most enough has already been sold to warrant a
beginning of the wo'F. 1t has been principally
| taken In thia city and R ,ltimnra