The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-13
GRAy'S NEW
HOTEL PLAN
Former Honolulu Man
Is to Build at
Miramir.

giving a statement of the plans of Noah
GRAY. formerly manager of the Young
Hotel for a new California Hotel, as
follows:
Miramar, the beautiful, is to have
a 81 900 600 hotel. 1t will have 225 guest
rooms, beset in the midst of Italian
gardens. and command an uneXcelled
the ocean The plans have already
been drawn by D. w. Willard of Red
lands, an architect who has designed
many beautiful and striking buildings.
The work is to be commenced next
April and the house will be opened to
guests next November. The proprie-
tors will be Noah w. Gray, who is
we'll known here as the former assist
ant manager of the Potter, and c. E.
Linzee, his brother-in-law, who for
some years was private secretary OF
M. NJ. Potter, and for the last year the
manager at Miramar.
Mr.. Gray, who left the Potter about
a. year and a half ago to become the
manager OF the ldulouS <AioAe'iiASA
Young hotel at Honolulu, returned to
this country about two months ago.
Being greatly impressed with the nat
ural beauty of Miramar and its popu-
larity with the wealthy class, ne ana
Mr. Linzee arranged to secure lease
| of the property from Mrs. Douiton, the
owner. to take effect with the begin
| ming of the present month. with tpls
assurance, MrGray went east, and
within fifteen minutes after he had
laid his proposition before a capitalist
friend of his a deal was closed for the
necessary money to build the hotel.
| Alphabetically the new building has
been designed to embrace all the dls-
tinguishing features of an Engilsn Inn
of the type built several centuries ago
The effect of brick and plaster walls
with massive wooden beams passing
| through, wide caves and gables. null
| Iioned windows and all the other pc
cuIiar and artistic features to be found
| in the exterior of those old hoStelrleS
will be copied in faithful detail. so
with the interior of the house, with its
many quaint furnishings and devices.
| This building in form will be long
J and narrow, with a slight curve to-
ward one wing. The length wiz be
400 feet and the width 80 feet. 1t Will
be three full stories in height with
dormer roof, or practically three and
a half stories. One side of the house
will face the mountains and valley ana
the other will overlook the ocean.
The foundations of the building will
be of cement and the basement, which
will also be of cement, will be occupied
bv the barber shop. the bar, children
playroom, billiard rooms, bowling al
legs, manicure parlors, porter's office.
trunk room, etc. The main floor Will
be divided by the kitchen, dining room
lobby, ladies' reception rooms, and cara
rooms in the order named. The lobby
and office will be seVenty-hVe feet IN
length and the width of the building.
1t will be arranged and furnished in
strict accordance with the inn style.
The dining room will be 100 feet by
ninety and will be able to seat 300
guests.
There will also be four private din
ing rooms. The upper floors Will con-
tain 225 bedrooms, single and en- suite
There will be $50 private baths in con-
nection with the rooms Every room
will be an outside room, facing either
the mountains or the ocean, the corrl-
dor extending through the center OF
the building. The entire house from
the basement to the roof will be fitted
with every modern convenience ana
comfort known to modern hotel con-
struction, including telephones in each
room. The house will have its own
electric plant, ice plant, cold storage,
laundry, etc.
i What will undoubtedly prove to be
/, one of the most attractive features OF
the proposed improvements will be
! sunken gardens which are TO De 10
Gated between the north side OF the
building and the county road. Around
these gardens a driveway will WIND
it's way coming in from the county
road. passing up to the hotel and around
} on the other side of the gardens tc
} the entrance again. The plan for lay
J ing out these gardens was drawn BY
H. P Butler of Boston, one of the
greatest landscape artists in the world
He spent a month or more at Mirama
and became greatly impressed VIII
1.-The natural beauties of the location
Z At the request of Mrs. Doulton he pre-
, pared the plans for the gardens. Th'
J artistic cottages which at present con
stitute so much of the charm of Mira
) mar will still be a part Of the resor
. though they will be removed iron
their present location.
< The lease which gives Messrs. Ora
and Linzee possession of Miramar wa
signed today. and they will conduct tn
business during the coming winte
months. Miramar has been wonder
fully successful, particularly so durin
= Mr.. Linzee's management, the CHAIR
q of its quiet seclusion, the glory Of il
@ flowers and the delight of its scent
q surroundings having attracted peopl
q | of wealth from every part of tt
4 country. The cottages have been fiji
d ed practically the year around.