Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1902-04-04
.SPoPRORD HOTEL SOLD
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Thomas F. Pollard Has Purchased the
Property and Will Enlarge and
Remodel the Hostelry.
THREE STORY ADDITION
The Greater spofford Will Be the Finest
Hotel East Of Butte About
$35, 900 Involved.

Red Lodge is to have the finest hotel
i'll the state east Of Butte. The good
news became known last Tuesday, when
Thomas +. Pollard Of the Spotford an
nounced to his friends that he had
closed a deal whereby he had purchased
the entire property and would at once
have plans drawn for the erection ct q
large addition which would mean a
complete changing of the hotel.
The purchase Of the property was made
from the Rocky Fork Town " Electric
company and with the addition to be#
erected involves an outlay by Mr.. Pol
lard of about S35 600. The new owner is
now having plans and specifications
drawn for the addition which he will
build and expects to have everything
ready for the beginning Of the masonry
work with the coming OF the first settled
weather.
With the purchase Of the hotel prop
erty Mr.. Pollard comes into possession
of fifty feet immediately north Of the
hotel il Billings avenue. This property
will be built upon solid up to the store
building Of A. Budas, occupied by s. p.
Meter, giving the hotel d total area OF
l25 feet square. The addition will be
three stories in height and built to ac
cop,modate fifty additional rooms, which,
in addition to the thirty-tive rooms the
Spofford now has, will give it ample
sleeping apartments. These new rooms
will be supplied with electric lights,
steam heat. hot and cold water and
baths, and their furnishings will be
J. strictly up to date. The lower floor OF
the addition will be built SO as to ac-
commodate two stores and already Mr.
! Pollard has received inquiries from mer-
! chants who would like to occupy them
!: when completed.
!: The changes will result in an entire
!; metamorphosis of the present lower floor
!: Of the hotel. It is contemplated to have
the office where the barroom is now and
!; the bar and billiard room will be where
/: the office is at present. only it will oc
cupy more room than the present office
/: for the jewlery store OF A. FL, Davis viii
/: be occupied, the partition between thai
!: and the rest of the block being removed
!: The stairway will be removed from it:
present location and the upper floors
will be reached by stairs which viii
ascend from the new office. The are'
!: occupied by the present stairway to tn
!: second floor will become a part Of tn
diningroom, which will give that portion
of the hotel needed larger accommoda
tions. The entrance to the diningroon
will also be different than it is now, as
will be from the new office and alta poln
about where the present cloakroom IS.
The addition and changes in the hote
!: are contemplated to cost $4,000, al
!! Though Mr. Pollard will not be surprise
if they overrun that figure little. 1T
expected that all these changes will b
/! completed by the first of September
The Spofford hotel was built in 18a
and Mr.. Pollard came here two years az
!; last September from Virginia City I
I: become its landlord. Since his install;
ton as it's chief the hotel has steadil
climbed to the front until it is toda
!: widely and favorably know among tt
travelling fraternity of the state. N
Pollard has been cramped for room {
several occasions during the past yea
!! and this fact, coupled with his faith
=! Red Lodge and his firm belief that tt
I. city is to have steady and permane
growth, led him to purchase the proper
and arrange for its speedy conversi
into the most pretentious hotel in ea'
ern Montana.