The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-17
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL
That Is Christmas Gift Butte
Will Receive.
APP0INT MENTS MODERN
The Thornton Building on Broadway Is
to Be Five Stories in Height
and Fitted for an Up
to-Date Hotel.

The need Of a thoroughly first-class
hotel, in which Butte has always Stools
is to be supplied by the erection of the
new Thornton block now in course OF
construction at the corner of Broad
way and Wyoming street. With the
completion of the building Butte may
boast of as fine hotel as any city OF
the state with the possible exception of
Anaconda. The new building is to be
five-story structure with basement.
will be 80 by 100 feet in dimensions, and
Is to be built along the most modern
ideas of hotel architecture. 1t will be
one of Buttes finest structures.
The building is to be constructed OF
iron and brick, with stone, brick and
terra Gotta trimmings, and is to DO made
very substantial. with 25-inch walls on,
the ground floor. 21-inch walls on tha
second story and the three upper stories
are to be 17-inch walls. BY the courtesy
Of the architects, White & Lignell, a
description of the plans for the building
is here given:
The first floor will be devoted to lob.
by, dining room. cafe and bar purposes.
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Broadway and Wyoming streets and
will be spacious, comfortable room.
To the west will come the main en-
trance and next the cafe and bar To
the north of the lobby, on Wyoming
street, will be the ladies' entrance and
elevator, and the dining room will be
at the corner of Wyoming street and
the alley. The northwestern portion OF
this floor will contain the kitchen, ordi-s
nary and other service rooms. ga.
In the basement will be located bar
Der shop, gentlemens toilet rooms, heat
ing plant, sample rooms and store-
rooms.
The second floor will contain a large
reception room and % sleeping apart-f
| ments, and the three upper stories will
have rs apartments, giving a total Of
103 apartments for guests. Each floor
will have nine bath rooms, seven of
which will be private, connecting with
one or more suites, and two of which.
will be general bath rooms. Each floor
will also be amply supplied with the
necessary toilet accommodations. RI
All of the guests apartments will be
large and airy, the average size being
IA by 10 feet, and every room will be
ventilated by a system of electric fans.
There will be but six inside or interior
rooms on each floor, and even the inside
rooms cannot be called strictly inside
rooms. for the reason that they will all
open on courts and Will have an outside
window. Every room will have a sta
tionary wash bowl. with hot and cold
water, and a roomy wardrobe.
The interior walls will be lathed and
plastered and deadened and will be I'M,
ished with hard plaster finish, tinted.
Throughout the interior finishings are,
to be of hard wood polished in the nat
ural wood The floors will all be hard
wood. with the exception of the bath.
rooms, which are to be of rubber tiling.,
and the main floor, which will be mosaic
thing. Iron fire escapes will be con-
structed at the rear of the building, on
which the upper hall windows will OPEN.
The Broadway ground floor front is to-
be plate glass, set in ornamental irong
frames, with an electro-plated bronzes
finish. There will be terra Gotta balSf
comics on all the floors of the Broad-s
way front and. with the neat Rennais-9
sance style of architecture, the struct-e
ure will be a handsome one and add
greatly to the dignity Of the appearances
of East Broadway.