Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-01
REDONDO HOTEL.

A Glance at the Beautiful New Hotel at
RedOndO-Its Grounds and Interior to
be Opened to Public Inspection on
the 1st and end of May.
The Redondo hotel will be opened to
the inspection of the public on the 1st
and End of May, and we would advise
all who delight in the artistic and the
beautiful conjoined with the home-like
and the comfortable, to avail themselves
OF the opportunity thus offered. The
building is a composite of the quaint
style of the EliZabethan and the Queen
Anne eras, with gables, towers, pOrches,
projections, insets, and enough regular
irregularities in it's outside lines to make
it strikingly interesting.
The grounds have been carefully and
tastefully laid out with walks, drives,
flower beds and lawns. But of course
it will require time for the trees, the
shrubbery and the flowers to grow be-
fore the full effect will be attained.
Reaching from the southern extremity
OF the building to the beach is one of the
noblest staircases in the country 1t re-
minds one of the grand approach to
the court of Versailles. 1t is altogether
wrought out in cement, and pre-
sents, with its wide steps and
stanch balustrades, an air of
grace and solidity which would
not have been surpassed even if built of
marble. At the southeastern end of the
hotel, shut out from the winds and open
to the sunshine, is delightful enclosure
intended for invalids to take their air
ing. 1t is bordered with full-grown
fro on nd hxy
a high cement wall encircled with
little walks where the invalids can take
they will find all sorts of little cozy
hooks and corners where they can take
their ease. We can only give faint
grounds, because they will require time
can be taken in.
Office and Salons.
We now come to the interior. The
Office, or lobby, of the hotel is striking
for its beauty of design, and its admir-
able carvings in wood. 1t is finished in
live oak, exquisitely polished, and the
furniture is in keeping with the entire
tone of this very handsome apartment.
The billiard-room is also very attract
i've salon, furnished with massive Strahle
tables of the latest and most approved
make. The dining-room is a per-
feet gem. 1t is not as extensive
as that of the Coronado, but
it has beauties and advantages
which that famous salon has not.
Formed in the shape of an extended
semicircle, three-fourths of its ample
windows look out upon the beach and
the ocean. Its curtains are all deli
cately hand-painted, and treat of such
appetizing subjects as clusters of berries
and grapes, sprays OF flowers, and
punches of fruits of every kind, all
reproduced to nature. The room will
seat 300 people, and the tables and
furniture are of the richest work and the
most substantial material. 1t is one of
the handsomest, airiest and sightliest
dining-rooms we have ever seen, and
any one who could fail to do justice to a
meal there must be utterly lost to the
pleasures of that good digestion that
waits on appetite" of which Shake
speare speaks.
Rooms and Suites.
There are altogether some three hun
dred suites and rooms in the hotel, and
they are all so richly and even gor-
geously furnished that the visitor who
becomes guest is at loss which to
choose. The immense corridors are
covered with soft and velvety carpeting,
and the rooms in this respect are each
treated with a carpet to correspond in
design and color with its finish and with
it's furniture. The bridal chamber is a
gem of beauty, with alcoves and closets
and little side corners, with a lavender
tone pervading them and a richness OF
garniture adorning them, that make
one wish that the happy day were com
ing soon or had not yet gone. When we
say that not less than seven miles of
carpeting has been consumed in furnish
ing this beautiful hotel, our readers will
concede that the gentlemen who have
launched into this splendid enterprise
have the courage OF their capital as well
as of their convictions, both of which
are without limit. Indeed, it is not
alone that they have given to this county
a new and beautiful seaside resort,
one that will attract people from all
parts of the Union to enjoy our delect-
able climate, but that they have exhibited
a taste in its execution that reflects the
highest credit upon their artistic and
esthetic judgment. Whilst the new
hotel is gem of beauty, inside and out,
at the same time it has an air OF home
comfort which will prove very grateful
to all who may inspect it or become its
patrons.
Tomorrow the HERALD will give a
complete description of the hotel and
other matters at Redondo, with an ac-
count of the opening. 1t will be nota-
bic number, worthy OF special attention.