Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-19
HOTEL NORTH.
Repairs on This Hosiery Are
Nearly Complete.
IA:
The Changes Make It One Of Best
Houses in the State.
q flee Greatly Changed and Much More Home.
iike-Somc Of the Improvements.

Sih' WHO leaSed the Motel before the
repairs were commenced. is unable tt
| take charge of it, and there are now
several looking at it with view OF
leasing it from Mr.. Newbegin. 1t is
too good hotel to long remain idle
and there is not a better location in
Maine.
1t is just across the street from the
depot, and in the heart of the business
section. Electric cars pass the door
every half hour for Hallowell and Gar
diner. There are always plenty of
public carriages in the vicinity. and
any part of the city can easily be
reached. in a very short time.
The repairs have been very thorough
| and they have cost the North heirs
the owners of the property, very near
ly 100000 They have bought all the
material possible in this city, and the
Workmen have all been Augusta peo-
pie. This money has very nearly all
been put in circulation in the city. so
the repairs have been of direct value
to Augusta, in several ways.
The main entrances have all been
replaced with handsome new cypress
doors. finished naturally. with glass
panels. They make a very pretty ap-
pearance from the street. The stair
ways have both been torn out and new
hardwood ones put in. A cypress
dado finished the same as the doors
has been built, and makes a very
handsome appearance as one enters
the hotel.
AS one enters the office he would
never recognize it, for there is the
greatest change here of any mart OF
the house. Formerly it was divided
INTO two rooms. and they were rather
dinSy, with the walnut coat room
partition and slate mantels over the
hreplaces. The walls were a dark TIM
and the office was not bright and in
viting looking.
The change has made the office inst
the opposite and one could rest by
just going into the room. When it is
furnished it will. of course. be much
more homelike. but even now it seems
CHEEKY. The floors are all of new hard
wood, and the walls and ceilings have
been painted. The walls are a flesh
tint, while the ceiling is ivory with
terra Gotta cornice and light yellow
diapher
The partition between the Office and
reading room has been taken down.
and il is now one big room from wall
to wall. The old desk has been re-
moved and pretty cypress desk been
built. 1t is built enclosed at the east
end. while open toward the depot side
of the hotel. When set off by a cigar
case and other desk furniture, it is
sure to make a handsome appearance.
One of the most pleasing features of
the whole office is the fireplaces.
These will give solid comfort to many
weary traveller during the cool eve
nings of the year. They are made of
steel finished brick with a mantel of
the same material. They look very
pretty, and when the fire is lighted
they will be very fine. A new an
nunciator has been placed on the wall
opposite the desk. How the office will
be furnished is impossible to state at
this time, as the new proprietor is I'M
known. The lights are all new. The
combination gas and electric fixtures
are all of brass, and all placed in
every room in the house.
Another new feature is the wash
room. The sample room at the head
has been made smaller, and in the
space thus obtained a row of wash
bowls have been set in. The counter
is marble and the plumbing has steel
pipes. The floor is of the same hard
wood as is seen in the office. In fact.
this floor extends throughout the first
| floor. New bowls have been placed in
| the toilet rooms.
The sample rooms have been paper
| ed, painted and repaired. They are
as nice as any rooms in the house
The papers in these rooms are of very
pretty dark blue and dark green
They look as well as could be wished
and will greatly add to the attractive
ness of the goods shown in them.
The billiard room has not been over
looked. The ceiling has been replaced
with a new steel ceiling. This is
painted in lilac with a very handsome
dark red paper with gold figures.
With the lights this room will appear
very handsome. The dados and floors
in this first floor have been all finished
in with the Granite liquid finish, and it
makes the woodwork shine like new
dollar. The radiators throughout the
house have been treated with the
aluminium finish and look very
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