Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
THE NEW HOTEL.
A Second Plan of the Proposed Structure
How the Building Will Look when

A Second Plan OF the proposed structure
How the Building will Look when
Completed.
Capt. D. G. Purse, Chairman Of the
committee representing the new hotel
movement, received yesterday from Mr..
J. A. Wood, well-known architect OF
New York. a second drawing Of the pro-
posed structure, which was inspected by
a number of citizens. The sketch is a
finished work of its kind, and gives
even the most casual observer
a better idea Of how the build
ing viii look than Is shown by the
drawing which was sent 10 Mr. Purse
few weeks ago. Inc plan represents
structure seven stories IN height above
the sidewalk. finished with a mansard
roof and a number Of turrets, the highest
of which will be 115 feet. The Bull street
front will have a balcony above the first
story supported by columns resting on
the interior line of the side
walk, and which will form a
covered way along the front Of the ground
floor of the edihce, which shows a num-
Der Of entrances opening towards the
pavement. but about ten feet within the
inner line Of the sidewalk. One Of these
entrances will be the main central door Of
the hotel on the Bull street side, while the
others will open into stores, ten in num-
Der. which are to be located in the nrst
story Of the structure and be furnished
with plate-glass windows and all the ac-
cessOries Of the most complete sales
rooms. This front Will be 800 feet long
and extend from Liberty to Harris street.
In addition to the stores that are planned
for the first floor there will also be a
billiard room, bar, barber
shop, commercial rooms, store rooms,
baker and confectionery rooms, en-
zine. boiler and fuel room, as
well as apartments for refrigera-
tors, trunks and other luggage, bath and
dressing rooms and dining rooms Tor SER
wants. The laundry and servants quar-
tiers viii. however, be located IN sepa-
rate structure. All Of these apartments,
as well as the kitchen, carving room.
stewards pantries, etc, on the principal
floors, viii be fire proof. The receiving
room for stores will be on DraytOn street.
The fronts of the building on Liberty
and Harris streets will each be 300 feet,
where granite wall, four feet in height,
viii be constructed from Bull to Drayton
street. and space left between this wall
and the building for an open garden.
graded level with the top Of the wall, and
laid out in walks, fountains, etc.;
and planted with orange, magnolia
and palmetto trees, Towering
plants and shrubbery. From
each Of these gardens will be three wide
stairways leading from the street to the
grand piazZas, one fronting north on Lib
erty street and the other south on Harris
street. These piaZZas will be about . feet
wide, with two wing piaZZas. The central
piazza will be 40 feet high, and the wing
piaZZas 80 feet. The upper rooms fronting
under these piaZZas will have small sep
arate balconies. The principal entrances
Will be across these piazzas, on opposite
sides Of the house, and Will each consist
Of three dOOrways seven feet wide, four
teen feet high to the rOtunda, with an
average size of sixty feet wide
and eighty feet long. A gal
lery at the second floor of the
rOtunda Will be about 40 feet. The draw
ing room will be 30x76 feet, connected
with parlors at the end each 24X2S feet.
The drawing room and parlor open on a
piazza 16 feet wide and 80 feet high on
Bull street over the covered way above
described, and overlooking the pave
ment and street beyond. The in
ner doors of the parlOr open into
a hall Is feet wide, with reception rooms
connecting and dozen or more inches
from 10 feet square upwards, Ornamented
with arches and draped with portierres.
The ladies' entrance, reception and toilet
the south side of the hotel. The
remainder of the second floor
i'm the Bull street wing is
divided into apartments, en- suite with
baths. etc. In the DraytOn wing Will be
the large dining room 81 feet wide, 100
feet long and 20 feet high, with arched
ceiling ana windows on three sides. The
breakfast room will be near the main
dining room, both being accessible from
onegcarving room.
The rotunda and second story hall will
have marble floor and wainscotting
| finished in fancy woods. In the rOtunda
Will be the Offices, with news stand,
baggage room, elevator and porterS' STAIR
case adjoining. The office floor is pro-
vided with reading, writing and
smoking rooms and gentlemen's
parlOr, all spacious and fronting on
wide piazzas. The next floor will have
halls y feet wide, extending from Bull to
DraytOn street, while In the wings there
will be halls 10 feet wide, crossing the
main hall at right angles. There will be
four cross halls in the centre building,
with windows to secure ample ventila-
ton. The rooms will be arranged
with parlers en- suite and single, with and
without baths, with all modern convent
ences and finished and decorated in the
most attractive manner. There Will be
266 sleeping rooms, with no dark court
rooms, but all opening on square
or street. The rooms and halls
will be finished with hard wood
trimmings, except where painted
wood is necessary to harmonic
with the decorations. The stair cases
will be of native light cOlored hard woods,
holly, box, magnolia and California red
woods. The elevator will be nine feet
square, moved by hydraulic power. The
baggage elevator viii be separate, and
bOthawill be enclosed by brick walls, and
furnished with tight iron doors at each
landing, to be clio ed tight in the event of
Il fire and at night when the cars are not
running.
On the top of the house will be iron
tanks with a capacity of 10000 gallons, to
supply the upper part of the house and
for protection in the event of a fire, with
live lines of large water pipes and reels of
hose on each floor. The sleeping rooms
will each be supplied with chandelier
and two bracket-lights for the dressing
bureau The piaZZas will be illuminated
with electric lights, and the dining-room,
drawing-roOm, rotunda, ETC., for either or
both electric and gas light. The exterior
of the structure will be of Georgia granite
up to the first window sills and thence
upward Of pressed brick, with reveals and
arches of white and black bricks from
Southern Georgia. The style of the build
ing is mainly Italian. The whole is sur
mounted with six tOwers-twO on each of