The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-10-18
THE OSBORN HOUSE.
A Hotel that Does Credit to its
Builder and to Pulaski.
A Short Description Of the Building,

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We have delayed any extended
notice of the new hotel being bnilt
by ex-Mayor Caleb Osborn for the
reason that we wished to tell it all
at once. We were shown through
the entire building last Monday by
Mr.. Osborn, shown all its conven-
fences and details, and given some
idea of its cost and its prospects.
Mr.. Osborn already had a very
handsome residence upon the lot
which is now a part of the hotel.
The new building is a three story
brick, with Is rooms on the second
and third floors, including four ele-
CANT suits of rooms, all large and
well ventilated, and approached by
broad winding stairway that
starts just back of the office. The
ground floor embraces the office,
news stand, Mushroom, dining-room
and cook-room. The front has four
very broad doors, making it an en-
tire opening. A narrow verandah
with iron ratings runs the whole
length of the house on the second
story, and the windows in front are
large, with only two glasses and in
side blinds. The rooms will be
fitted up with marbieized metallic
mantels, are elegantly plastered and
ceiled and painted. The whole
work was done under the direct
supervision of Mr.. Osborn himself,
who has demonstrated his business
capacity in everything he UNDER
takes, and was consequently done
cheaper than any one else could
have done 1.-THE entire cost of
buildings and lot being about
$4,000. Mr.. John West has done
all the wood work, and it is credit
to him. The house will be supplied
with water from three cisterns and
well, and will besprovided with
ample sewerage. Every part of the
building is accessible by easy and
many approaches, all under cover.
The cook kitchen will have two
story ceiling for the escape of the
heat and smoke and is connected
with the pastry room, the cook
room, the dining room and the
Easements by several passage ways
and doors. The parlors are in the
old building, and some of the rooms
here are splendidly finished and
frescoed. This part of the hotel
contains some splendid family apart
ments, with private dining room
and every convenience. There is
broad staircase here running to the
street door, and it connects by sew
eral doors with the hotel proper
and with the street, making egress
easy in case of fire. There are
eleven sleeping rooms here and a
very large, airy basement. The
whole hotel embraces AZ splendid
rooms, and is an ornament to Pu-
laski aad credit to the enterprise
of its proprietor and the workmen
who have been engaged upon it
The front is now undergoing the
skill of the artistic painter, Mr.. AL
bright, who is putting a beautiful |
natural grain upon it. Mr.. Osborn
has already been in correspondence
with an East Tennessee man who
wishes to rent it, and the famous
Acton Young is also making inqui-
ries. 1t will be finished complete in
about two weeks and ready to be
occupied. We are glad thus to
place on record an incomplete de-
scription of this enterprise and to
say in unfeigned sincerity that its
protector and builder DIES erves the
highest praise and the support of
the people of Pulaski.