The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-11-02
TO BUILD A FIVE STORY HOTEL,
Henry G. Holmes to Build a New Hotel
The Old Union House to be Removed.
New Structure to Occupy Entire Cor
ner. Work to Begin Next Spring.

HENRY @. HOLMES, proprietor and land
lord OF the Union house has had plans
drawn for five story pressed brick hotel
to supplant the above named one which
stands at the corner of Main and School
streets ana work on the structure will be
commenced as early next spring as
weather and other matters will permit.
The building will have frontage of fifty
two feet on Main street and depth Of one
hundred and forty.f feet on School street,
extending to the river wall Of the North
Branch. This proposed structure will OF
necessity supplant the buildings that now
stand on the corner, which include the pres
emit hotel building, the billiard hall occu-
pied by o. Q. Clogston and the barns and
sheds in the rear of the hotel. Just what
Mr.. Holmes will do with the building now
used as a hotel he has not himself decided
He may determine to remove IL to another
location or he may raze it, The barns in
the main will be Iazed and tho billiard hall
will most likely be set back from the street
and be converted into laundry building
and storage house.
1t is probable, according to Mr., Holmes
latest decision that he will, after moving
his billiard hall and barns, move his pres
emit hotel structure to the place where tho
barns now stand and use it for the accom-
mediation Of his boarders while the build
ing OF the new hotel is in progress. The
hotel will have it's main entrance in its
corner, on Main and School streets. At
the opposite side OF the building in front
will be a store, as there will also be two
stores opening from the School street trout
in the rear.
The office, or lobby, will be about 30 by
40 feet in size and will contain a modern
fire place which will bs built of brick and
will have n tile canopy. The general office,
private Office aud check room will be in the
rear of the lobby at the left and in the rear OF
the main office on the opposite side will be a
door opening onto School street aud located
Immediately in the rear of the office on the
School street side will be the elevator and
baggage room. The wash room, which is
TO be tiled with marble. will be opposite of
the elevator.
Between these offices in the front part of
the building and the two stores in the rear
will be a spacious driveway which will lead
to the back OF the hotel and the livery.
The second floor, in front will he devoted
entirely to parlor in the rear of which, on
the left, will be d reception room while on
the ght Will be a private parlor.
In the rear of these there will be the stair
way, lavatory, two bath rooms and eleva-
tor. Next following these rooms will be
the dining room which will be spacious and
well lighted. At the rear end of the hotel
on the second floor will be the kitchen,
serving room and pantry.
The third floor will be- devoted to sleep
ing and bath rooms, as will also the fourth
and fifth floors. These three floors will
contain in all about S4 sleeping rooms and
there will be suitable number of bath
rooms. There will be six suites of double
rooms and two triple room suites. The
hotel will have an elevator of the latest
and most approved make and will
have safety appliances. Steam heat and
electricity for lighting as well as gas will be
used There will be a sufficiency of fire
places in the building to give it cheerful
and homelike appearance. The design of
the building shows rather more of a tend
ency to strength than to ornamentation.
| The building will be surrounded on the
sides with spacious piazzas and the second
and fifth stories will have balconies, while
the third and fourth stories will have large
bay windows. The building will have an
eighteen-inch tile cornice that will lend to
its solid appearance.
Too much cannot be said regarding the
desirability Of the location. 1t will be
| fronted on its two street sides by four
churches, the handsome Kellogg Hubbard
| Library and numberless pretty residences.
| For quiet rest for the weary traveller or the
idle boarder no better place could be found
than a good hotel in such location.
Considering all OF the present wsiling
| because Of lack of hotel room Mr.. Holmes
enterprising move to furnish more aud bet
| ter accommodations for the travellers is
certainly commendable and he should meet
the support that he merits.