The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-08
PLANS FOR
FINE HOTEL
Montgomery Company
Awards Contract.
TAKES EXCHANGES PLACE
Seven-Story Structure After
Atlanta'S Piedmont.
There Are to BE 1S4 Rooms and Every
thing Of Most Modern De-
sign-work Begins
October LIST.

President Simon Gassenheimer of the
Montgomery Hotel Company announc-
ed yesterday that plans for the hand
some hotel which Is to be constructed
on the site of the old Exchange had
been accepted and that everything was
in readiness to begin the work when
the lease of the property expires Octo-
Der list.
Several days the Board of Directors
Of the hotel company have had under
consideration plans drawn by archi-
tects of Montgomery and other cities.
They have discussed these plans in
formally and have had the advice of
| Manager Owen of the Piedmont Hotel,
Atlanta, Ga.
with the Board of Directors of the
company at the ONCE of Holt & Strauss
| until a late hour Monday night. Each
set of plans submitted was gone over
| carefully, and there was much discus
| sion of the needs of Montgomery in the
way of a modern hotel.
Yesterday morning President Gas
senheimer announced that the plans
had been accepted. He declined to give
out the name of the successful archi-
tect. It is understood that he is from
another city, although a Montgomery
architect will probably be associated
| with him.
After style of Piedmont.
| THE new hotel" said President Gas
| senheimer, will be fashioned after the
| style of the Piedmont Hotel in Allan
| ia. We are advised that 1t will be
| equipped with all of the modern appur-
tenances of the Atlanta hotel and we
will go the Atlanta hotel one better by
| improving on some of its plans"
The Montgomery Hotel-which by the
way has not yet been, named-will be
| seven stories high, with a roomy base
ment 1t will be built of gray, pressed
brick, terra Gotta finish and the struc-
tural work will be of steel. The sue
cessful architect has declared that 1t
will be the only absolutely fire-proof
hotel in the South.
The main hotel building will be per-
fectly square, very much after the
shape of the old Exchange, but 1t will
be provided with octagonal bay win
dows and other ornamental furnish
ings. An annex will be built facing on
Lee Street, where the plant of the Elk
change Ice Works Is now located. This
annex will be three stories high, al
though 1t will be constructed so that
it may be raised to seven stories whep
1t becomes necessary. 1t Is proposed to
locate the kitchens, storage rooms, bag
gage rooms, dynamo rooms, servant
rooms, and in fact, what might be call
ed all utility departments In this an
mex.
The basement plan of the hotel pro-
vides for a large billiard room at the
northwest corner directly underneath
the space now used as saloon. AT the
opposite corner and underneath the
space now used as a cafe. a barber
shop will be located. There will be
wash rooms, bootblack stands, tailor
shops, wine cellars, servant quarters
and lavatories and closets in the
basement.
The First Floor Plan.
The first floor plan gives an ade-
ouate idea of what the hotel company
has in store for Montgomery The
wide rotunda in which the office Will
he located is to be about the center of
the main building. 1t will be reach
ed from the main entrance on Com
merce street by a wide vestibule from
about the same point as the main en-
trance to the old Exchange. On eth
er side of this vestibule will be stores
or shops. The barroom and grill room
will be about the same place as II Is
In the old hotel and 1t Is contemplate
ed that a drug store, or soda water es-
tablishment will be between the bar
room and the main vestibule.
A large and roomy cafe Will be at
the corner of Commerce and Mont
gomery streets and next to 1t and
: adjacent to the Vestibule will proba-
bly, be a drug store.
It Is indicated by the plans that
J Montgomery street is to be populariz-
ed by the new establishment. A wide
and handsome ladies entrance to the
rotunda will be located on MoRtgom-
: cry street about the middle of the
building. This entrance will be pro
= vided with handsome porte cochere
and Just south of the entrance there
. will be an elegantly appointed ladies
waiting room and reception room. Bach
of these rooms and at the southeast
ern corner of the main building Will
be another large cafe Nor the accom-
mediation OF ladies and parties.
The main rotunda or lobby will b.
provided with cigar stands, brancl
telegraph Offices and other accessories
of a first class modern hotel.
A wide hallway will run the full
length of the north side of the build
ing so that the saloon and grill room
may be reached from the kitchen with
out passing through the lobby.
Every shop and room on the grount
floor will have an entrance into tn
main rotunda.
A Palm Garden.
A palm garden 56 feet square will
be located on the second flosS an
overlooking the rotunda or lobby. Am
: pie light will be furnished by an or
4 nate skylight just over the palm gar
den and the rotunda. This palm gar
= den will be surrounded by ladies' par
= lors and in it's rear the main. dinin
. hall will be located. This dining hal
will be 45 by ~ feet, and it is ex
n pected that 1t will be one of the mos
elegant in the South. For the secon
floor. which is to be devoted largely {
the convenience of ladies, a wide bal
cony overlooking Montgomery stree
= will be provided. This balcony wi
= really be the roof of the porte cocher
It The other floors will, of course, b
l. used as bed rooms although a break
d fast room will be established in on
of them. There will be 1874 bed room
v and 100 OF these bed rooms will b
4 provided with baths. Every room /
4 the hotel will be provided with run
ming water.
n The officers of the Montgomery He
E, tel Company are: Simon Gassenheim
y er, president; DR.. B. J. Baldwin vic
n president; c. A. Lanier, secretary; y
p. LeGrand, treasurer; Board of d.
:, rectors: l.. Strauss. I. Well, B. L. Hol
w F. Vandiver. S. zadek and c. J
K Lanier. Jr.
al President Gassenheimer said that
J. was the idea of the promoters Of IN
" hotel to push the work as rapidly a
N possible He expressed the opinion tha
in 10 hnildiQt