Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-28
A GRAND HOTEL.
The Plans and Elevations OF
Captain John B. Carey'S
Palace.
The Largest. Most Modern and Finest
First Class Hotel in the State Of
Kansas for Wichita.

DumOnt, architects in response to request
made by Captain Carey, himself, exhibited
to US yesterday the elevations and the
several floor plans of what the EAGLE,
without any authority has heretofore
designated 1.-The Carey Palace Hotel" We
don't know as we can give our readers a
better idea Of how this fine building will
/ look than to say that from the intersection
of Fourth and Douglas avenues, as you
stand facing the southwest, there will loom
up magnificent brick, stone and iron
structure one hundred feet fronting Oh
! Douglas avenue and one hundred and
| twenty feet fronting on Fourth avenue,
the walls towering sixty four feet above the
/ sidewalk; upon the corner next to you a
projecting tower eightv-siX feet high and
on the west corner mansard dome eighty
feet high; the basement of white cut stone
standing seven feet above the pavement;
in the center of the Douglas avenue front a
grand entrance Of ornamental cut stone
work, reached by broad fine stone steps
with gable in the roof Overhanging it; on
the Fourth avenue front another main en-
trance, for ladies. over which is fine large
iron balcony hidden from afternoon suns,
the building as a whole a combination of
French Renaissance and Ionic Or in other
words a five story building, with large plate
glass, square two.light windows, massive
entrances, the first story of white stone, the
other four stories of st. Louis pressed
brick, and white stone caps, sills and belt
ings, and all surrounded 10y a solid rich iron
cornice and tasty towers. Such in appear
ance will be the Carey Palace hotel or
the public caravansary being erected by
Captain j. b. Carey, the stone work for
which has all been contracted for, and for
which six hundred thousand St Louis and
Carthage pressed brick have been purchas-
ed: a hotel which in magnitude, convcn-
ces and cost will -surpass any ever yet erect
ed in the state of Kansas; a hosiery at once
convenient and luxurious, whose fame
with the travelling public will be contin-
ual guaranty of liberal and remunerative
patronage.
So much for this important enterprise in
general terms. AS for the details, as we
gather them from the plans of the different
floors, we find that the hotel will contain
sixty thousand superficial square feet of
floor, all Of which will be devoted to the
use of the hotel direct, except magniti-
Gently furnished little business room in the
west corner of the building, which
will be twenty feet in the clear
from the pavement to the ceiling and the
front to which will be of cut stone, rich and
massive and Romanesque in style. The
corner tower as also the main entrance on
Douglas avenue project two feet out from
the main walls of the building. The Doug
las avenue entrance. which is eight feet
wide is marked not only by the steps and
projection of the building, but by an unique |
gable at the roof The front of the bust
ness room is the latest style from New
York City and is all of cut stone
THE BASEMENT
The basement as before mentioned will |
be built of Cottonwood Falls stone and will !
contain besides the room described, several /
and airy sample room, barber shop, an
engine room, a boiler room, bakery, a |
laundry and a large cellar and store room.
THE FIRST FLOOR
The first floor proper of the hotel will be
very attractive. The corner will be con
structed into "a general office 40X60 feet,
open, light and reached directly from both |
main and ladies entrances. This general I
oby or rotunda will contain seven fine
Corinthian columns supporting the floors
above. The clerks desk will be so located
hat that functionary will have view of
he Dining room doors. the main stairway,
he elevator, of both entrances and of both
streets. AT the right of the main entrance
S the reading room 23X36 feet, with a
eating capacity of IA hundred or
more, large enough for political
aucuses in convention times or for gather
ngS of business men and committees on
IN portant occasions In the rear of this
Dom is the staircase hall with an eight
DOT stairway and also a passenger elevator
THE DINING ROOM
On the same floor on the east or shady
ide of the building. with south ventilation
ut opening out on Fourth avenue imme-
lately south of the ladies entrance. IN the
most pleasant and quiet part of the build
yg, is located splendid dining room
9X53 feet, with trussed or self-supporting
cling, the view from all parts of which
rill be open and unobstructed, practically
orty- tive..feet square, clean. Open airy and
The second floor, in addition
D what we have enumerated. will also be
rovided with a.wash-room, water-closets,
forage room. cooling room. general pantry.
utler's pantry the main kitchen and
ample room. {
THE SECOND FLOOR.
On the second floor above the basement !
nd Immediately above the general lobby. !
nd in the northeast corner looking down
n both avenues. will be located the general {
arlor. 25X3S feet The halls in this story
r on this floor. viii be mainly twelve feet 1
tide. This floor viii be largely taken up {
Y rpoms in suits with few single apart
sdies water-cloScts and bath rooms.
THE THIRD AND FOURTH FLOORS ..
The third and fourth floors above the /,
asement or fourth and fifth floors in real {
v, will be taken up or occIpiesi almost [