The age-herald., 1900-09-15
HILLMAN HOTEL
 COMPLETE PLANS
Showing a Magnificent Structure
 Now Being Built.
WILL OPEN NEXT SUMMER
And Will be Spacious and Remarkably Convenient for Guests-Architec Sully Discusses His Plans
 and Purposes

Thomas Sully of New Orleans, the archi- tect who was awarded the contract for drawing plans and specifications for the Hillman Hotel, is in the city and has pre- scented his drawings to the directors of the hotel company. They met with approval, and as soon as the work of laying the foundation, which has already begun, is finished, the work of construction proper will be commenced.
 The hotel will be six stories high, and when finished will be beautiful specimen of the architects art. The Italian rennais- sance style will prevail in the general ap pearance of the building, which is to be constructed of red brick and trimmed with light gray stone
 The main entrance to the first floor will be on Nineteenth street This will be built as a rotunda fifty feet wide and running back eighty feet On each side will be a passenger elevator, and the freight elevator will be located in the rear of the rotunda The floor of this immense lobby will be of marble, as will the wainscoting. Room will be left for three stores in Nineteenth street, and these will take up all the space from the entrance to the alley On the
 
 built beautiful cafe, which will extend to the Fourth avenue corner and run back nearly the entire length of the building.
 A ladies entrance will be opened just behind the cafe and connecting with the rotunda at the elevator. In the rear of the stores and on the left side of the TO- tunda will be located the barroom, bil- Hard rooms and other conveniences for the public. There will be two entrances, one from the Fourth avenue side of the building and one from the rotunda. There will also be a small entrance from the alley on the south side of the building
 On the second floor, just over the TO- tunda, will be a handsome palm room oc- cupying the same space, with a well-hole in the rear for the admission of light to the ground floor. This palm room will be covered with plate glass. Above this the space will be left vacant for the purpose of ventilation for the bed rooms.
 On the north side of the building in the corner of Nineteenth street and Fourth avenue, the main dining room will be To- cated. This will be used by guests who engage rooms on the American plan. There Will also be a private dining room and a children's dining room. The kitchen and pantry will be located on this floor, and there will be few bed rooms and several private baths.
 The remaining four floors yill be entirely taken up with bed rooms. An alley of sev- eral feet will be left at the rear of the building, so that of the 175 bed rooms every one will have windows opening to the fresh air.
 The hotel will be supplied with four fire escapes, three standpipes with sets of hose, and an electric fire alarm, which works automa atically.
 In the basement of the building will be located all the machinery necessary for the operation of an eletric light plant, a laun- dry and an ice plant.
 MT Sully stated that he thought the building could be made complete and ready for use by the middle of next July. He says that St. Charles Hotel at New Or leans which he planned, was built in