Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-02-27
SANTA MONICA HOTEL.
Magnificent Building for
the City by the Sea.
FIvEsToRIEs FROM THE BEACH
Spacious Halls Fine Parlors. Ball
Room, Long yerandas Over
looking the Sea.

By the courtesy Of the architects,
Messrs. Boring & Haas, the HERALD is
enabled TO, lay before its readers this
morning view Of the fine hotel about
to be erected at Santa Monica. Note of
this enterprise has been made in these
columns before on more than one occa-
sion. The plans are now complete.
Excavations are being made on the spot.
The bricks are burning and the ground
plan is laid out. The contracts will be
let soon and the work begin in down
right, dead earnest. II is to be finished
and ready for the grand opening on the
FOURTH OF JULY NEXT.
This is barely four months aud is
none too long to accomplish so great an
undertaking.
The site chosen is partly on tho bluff
overlooking the ocean and partly on the
beach, almost within the wash OF the
League long rollers OF the Pacific
That portion Of the building below
the bluff will be FIVE stories and that on
the bluff three. The extreme length
will be 266 feet, and the ex-
treme depth rs feet. The five;
story part will have an altitude OF W
feet looking boldly out to sea. The
three-story side to land will be % feet
From the foundation on the beach to the
top Of the flagstaff the
urroBT II TO BE l28 FEET.
The building will contain all told some
100 TO IT'S rooms. There will be around
the editice $50 feet of veranda, most of
which, will be fourteen feet wide. Forty
four feet will be enclosed In glass over
looking the sea, where in all weathers
guests NAV sit and watch old ocean rs
he lies like a sheet Of glass under smiling
summer suns, as he ripples iu many
twinkling smiles under a gentle treeze,
or as he losses landward in tumultuous
pillows in some wild hour Of storm.
The style of the building is what Is
known to modern architecture as the
Free Classic a style very picturesque
and giving great scope in handling to
skillful artist. In the present instance
its principles have been used with mas
ter hand
ruRRE ARE TWO MAIN ELEVATIONS
To the ediGce, one looking out to sea,
which Is striking in its great height, and
the other along the land side. which is
called the Front Elevation" although
both are fronts. The finish to this latter
is very beautiful, regarding the effect as
q whole.
The first floor on the beach contains
bowling alley, children's plsy-room, ball
room, dressing rooms, ETC., etc., with
perfect facilities for sea bathing. On
the second floor will be the servants'
rooms and those Immediately connected
with them, and the billiard room. The
third floor, or first on the land side, will
be occupied by the dining rooms, par
Tors and main hall, where the office will
be. The uppermost two floors will be
bed chambers. The billiard room, par
Tors and dining room face the sea. The
main hall 10 44x50 feet and contains the
office, fireplace, seats ell round, etc.
The dining room is 44x72 feet, and the
ball room and billiard room are each
3Sx72 feet. All the rooms are amply
large and well ventilated and lighted.
In every detail the comfort Of guests is
carefully studied. An elevator runs up
all Ave stories, carrying the occupants
from the highest door to the beach.
There are bath rooms all over the house.
Numerous suites OF rooms have private
bath rooms attached. There Is water,
hot and cold. In every room. Provision
is to be made for
SEA BATHING. Hor OR COLD,
In the building. The rooms are pro-
vided with cheerful freplaces and the
halls are heated with hot water pipes.
The larger rooms have plate glass win
dows Axe feet, with handsome
stained glass transoms. Elec.
trio bells are furnished to every
room connecting with the best style Of
Indicator at the office. The whole house
will be we'll built, we'll finished and well
furnished. The cost of the edifice
WILL Be ABOUT $4,000.
And when done Los Angeles will have
at Santa Monica seaside resort Of
which she need not feel ashamed. 1t
will be the finest hotel in all South Cali.
fornia. the new Raymond At Pasadena
alone excepted.
These two hotels will do much TO re-
lsve Los Angeles of the odium now
Justly attaching to her in her utter lack |
OF hotel facilities to meet the pressing
wants OF tourists who throng here at all
seasons Of the year. Their existence
will in no wise lessen the need Of q good
hotel in the city. Los Angeles needs.
and always will need good commercial
hotel until the want is supplied. When
she has such o oaravansary, as such .
CITY should have. there will still be room
for second, and then both will be
filled. 1t 10 not at all probable that an.
other year will pass over the heads OF
Angelenos without seeing just such an
enterprise carried into complete execu-