Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09
HAYWARD HOTEL
A SKY-SCRAPER
ILLUSTRATION OF LATEST
BIG ENTERPRISE
CASH OUTLAY OF 100000
Marble and Mosaic Floors, Wide Cor
rldors, Mezzanlne Floor for Par-
lore, Passenger and Freight
Elevators and Cafe
CASH OUTLAY OF 100000

Eight and ten-story fire-proof hotels
are multiplying in Los Angeles, not be-
cause the owners desire to crafty per-
sonal ambition to erect enduring monu-
ments, but because the growth of the
city demands great hostelries to prop
erly accommodate the travelling public
and to provide shelter and entertain
ment for the throngs of visitors on
national and state convention days
and during the tourist seasons.
The latest enterprise is a ten-story
hotel building to be erected at once
on the southwest corner Of South
Spring and Sixth streets by DR.. Hen
derson Hayward. 1t will be q fire.
proof and cement stone structure of
$50 bed rooms and $50 bath rooms, with
q bank on the corner and two store
rooms on the Spring street frontage,
q deep basement for stylish cafe and
the possible introduction of q Turkish
Spring street is so feet, on Sixth street
165 feet to an alley.
The plans for this latest addition to
the show buildings of greater Los An
geles were drawn by Architect G. f.
Whittlesey and call for an expenditure
of 100000. The style of architecture is
described as 'medaeval Spanish" The
entire exterior, including the cornice,
will be in tool dressed cement stone
Of warm color, resembling Indiana
Bedford stone and the result will be a
revelation to the people Of Los An
geles in the use of the material men
toned.
In planning the exterior of the struc-
ture Architect Whittlesey has at
tempted to develop the design along
rational lines suggested by the COM
mercial necessities and conditions of the
project and has treated the first story
on broad lines tastefully elaborated.
Above the first floor rises the main
shaft of the building in which every
suite is exactly the same on the in
terror, expressed alike on the exterior
all rooms being similar in size and ar
rangement.
The building is surmounted by an
attic story and massive cornices resting
on the backs of ornamental griffins,
every third cornice surmounted by q
perforated parapet Each corner of the
building will have massive piers topped
by cupolas and tipped by fagstaffs.
The main entrance will be on Spring
street, along the inside of the south
wall, opening into wide corridor
leading to the office, lobby and ele-
vators located at the southwest corner
of the building, the entrance for wo-
men being from Sixth street along the
inside of the west wall. Both corridor
and entrances will be elaborated in
sign entirely overlaid with gold leaf
with background picked out in light
vermilion.
The entire interior, including the
walls, floors, partitions and stairways,
will be of concrete faced with marble
and mosaic in which will be embedded
sinews Of steel.
The Office and lobby ceiling will be
eighteen feet high and on the mezza-
nine floor will be located the parlors,
reading and writing rooms, accessible
by elevators or grand stairway.
All of the upper floors will be in
hardwood, those in the office and cor
ridors in mosaic, marble and scagliola.
The marble staircase will be an Or
namental feature of the office and
lobby.
In addition to the two high speed
passenger elevators a freight elevator
win be provided. The basement will
extend to the Spring and Sixth streets
curb lines and concrete walks with
prismatic glass will be laid.
The excavation for this notable i'm
provement is about finished and within