The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-06-23
TO BUILD
A HOTEL
Proposition to Erect Structure
on Site Of Colonial House.

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Plans For Building Five Stories
High and 333 Feet Long-To be
Brick, Fire Proof and Have 222
Guest Chambers-WfI Include all
the Modern Equipment of Well
Appointed HOsteIery.
The proposition to build modern hotel
at Morristown has progressed to the extent
of securing options on the site occupied
by the Colonial Hotel, the three cottages
south of it, the Guerin, DR. Lewis and
Charles Soldiers and nearlyall the land
back to the street at the foot of the hill,
comprising about four and one-half acres
the very best location in the city.
! Plans have been made for brick and
steel beam, fire proof hotel, FIVE stories
high with two hundred and twenty one
guest chambers.
The main building is 1888 feet long, in
cluding the towers at the angles, on
South, st. with a wing 1873 feet on Pine
street and another lis feet at the south
end, the whole forming a letter E, with
the long side on South street.
A piazza, varying from II to 27 feet
wide, extends along the entire west front,
and another about the same length on
the garden front on the east side.
The dining room 60xS0 feet, 60 feet
high under the dome, will be located
some distance from the main building,
and connected by an extension Of the
hall IA feet wide.
Behind the dining loom will be the
kitchen, laundry, servants apartments,
boiler house, &C., accessible from the
back street at the foot of the hill.
In the basement is located the billiard
room, bar, barber shop, storage room,
&C., also porters or baggage room,
which will be accessible by baggage
wagons from Pine street.
| The main floor will be four feet above
the lawn; in the centre will be the main
entrance and the rotunda SO feet by SO
feet, 2S feet high extending upward
through two stories with a gallery at the
second. This gallery will be supported
onpolished granite columns.
To the right and left will be corridors
13 feet wide along which are the recep.
ton, writing and reading rooms; at the
south end will be the drawing room 37x
90 feet. Beyond it the conservatory,
separated only by columns and plate
glass.
Adjoining this, the drawing room on
the east will be the music room 37x66
feet, separated from it by columns with
ornamental cabinet work. so that the
whole can be made one apartment.
The music room will have windows
five feet wide, down to the floor on three
sides opening on piazz all around, one
end being circular. There will be a
gallery extension for the musicians, an.
other for spectators
AT the extreme north end will be q
semi-circular smoking room, with win
dows on three sides and dome to pro-
vide for exhausting tobacco smoke and
keeping it out of the main house.
The Office, private Office, porters room,
telegraph Office, news room and COM
mittee rooms, are all close together
Seven large sleeping rooms, some with
baths, are provided on this floor
The total length of the front on South
street through the centre including
smoking room and conservatory will be
$50 feet.
About one half of the piazza will be
two stories in height, but without a
floor at the second story.
There will be four iron stair cases
from the first floor to the second, and
FIVE from the second to the top. The
baggage and passenger elevators will be
entirely separate. The baggage eleva.
tors will open into the porters room on
each floor and not i'll the halls.
On the second floor in the centre over
the rotunda will be a gallery with win
dows at either side opening on balconies
under the high piazza This interior
gallery will accommodate a hundred
people.
The balance of the second and all
hoogs above are divided into rooms single
and en-. suite. The rooms vary in size
from 11x16 to upward of 1926 feet
There will be 2l0 guests sleeping rooms,
81 alcoVes, 81 private baths, and clothes
closets with nearly all rooms. Also
public baths, stolage room, sinks, &c.,
on every HOOr.
The building will be fireproof. Wood
to be used only for Joiner and cabinet
work. Steam heat and electric light
viii be used throughout.
The cabinet work Of the first story is to
be of mahogany, and cyprus for most of
the sleeping rooms Cedar in the clothes
rooms.
The design will be ornamental, and
the whole building credit to the liber-
atty and enterprise of the residents of
Morristown. The description might be
more complete, but the foregoing will
convey some idea of what is proposed.
There will be nothing inferior about the
grounds, hotel or furnishing. Neither
will there be any extravf CANT fad or
fancies introduced.
The Guerin cottage can probably be
sold for removal to lot nearby. The
material of the Colonial will be utilized
in building the servants quarters, laun-
dry, &c.
The class of patronage the house is
likely to attract and its wants, have
been considered, and provisions made to
crafty those wants. The prospectus
soon to be issued will state the costs of
the land, house furniture, the parts of
the year it is expected to do business,
the amount of gross receipts, the recog-
nized proportion OF profits to receipts;
the amount of proposed mortgage which
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