Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-11-21
TO MAKE THE WINDSOR
LIKE A new HOTEL.
Patrons Will Not Know 1t
Few Months Hence.
Great Changes to Be
Made in Interior of
House, Including
Everything.

Arcnltect Eugene G. Wachendorffe.
OF Atlanta, spent all day Friday going
over the Windsor Hotel again with an
assistant, making measurements.
checking up his plans for the improve
ments that are to be made, consulting
further with Mr.. Lee G. Council, the
owner, and otherwise getting ready to
put the finishing touches to the plans
that are to convert this property into
one of the most desirable in the South,
and to make 1t an ideal stopping place
for the travelling public, tourist and
commercial alike.
From the basement to the roof i'm
proyements are being planned that
Will materially change the interior of
the hotel, adding to the comfort of the
guests, largely increasing the accom-
modations, and making the hotel prop
erty in every way more desirable than
it has ever been in it's history.
1t is not possible to enumerate at
this time the improvements in detail.
Enough can be stated, though, to con-
vey an idea of the thorough character
of the work that is to be done, and
the first class hotel that will result
when the architect and the contrac-
tors have completed their work and
turned the property over to the owner.
Take the first or ground floor, for
instance. Here there will be a num-
Der of important changes. On the
Jackson street side the entrance will
remain, but the stairway leading to
the second floor will be removed. On
the Windsor avenue side the entrance
will be done away with
The hallway leading to that en-
trance will be thrown into the gentle
mems writing room, doubling the ca
pacity of that necessary apartment,
which will then be thoroughly equip
ped for the purpose for which it is to
be used, that of writing and reading
room ~ the men. Adjoining it on the
Windsor avenue side will be a large
and handsomely -eqtiPped barber shop,
with an entrance leading directly into
the main body of the hotel.
1t is the purpose to equip this in the
latest style. 1t will be the only barber
shop in the building and will be leased
under conditions that will guarantee
its being handled in the most approved
fashion. In the rear of this will be
the new toilet room for gentlemen,
fully twice the size of the present one,
and equipped in the most modern san
itary fashion.
Adjoining the barber shop on Wind
sor avenue will be the billiard room,
which will be made a large, brilliantly
lighted and altogether attractive fea-
ture of the building. Beyond this on
tho same side will be the cafe or res
taurant.
The stores fronting on Lamar street
adjacent to Windsor avenue will be
improved by the substitution of large
display windows and will be converted
into desirable stores for retail pur-
poses, their value in that connection
having been greatly increased by the
building of the post office.
In the main lobby there will be, in
addition to the general Identification
resulting from the renovation of the
,,-oII, op5@ @4bo ,.yoo5 r,orI~ ,o,,,a ;Y,
provements that will add greatly to
the effective management of the hotel.
Prominent among these will be the do
ing away with the old annunciatOr
system and the substituting of tele-
phone system. Every room in the
hotel will be equipped with a phone,
the exchange being built in the lobby,
facing the clerks desk, and alongside
the main stairway.
A bench will also be constructed
here for the bell boys, who will no
longer be congregated in the rear.
Under the stairs will be accommoda-
tions for the supplying of ice water by
the bell boys to the guests calling for
same. While these are minor improve
ments they show the care with which
the whole matter is being gone over.
Every effort is being made to let no
| details escape that are worthy of at
I tention.
There will be no drummers sample
room on the ground floor, as now, as
after the improvements are made the
store rooms will be more valuable fol
other purposes. Rooms will be equip
ped in another part of the building fol
sample rooms.
In the lobby, too, will be built
small package room for the reception
of valises, ETC. The heavy baggage
trunks, sample cases, etc., will come
in from the lane in the rear of the no
tel. The entrance there will probabl!
be closed except for a gateway :
track will. be built, on which trucl
will run, bringing baggage directly Il
the rear of the elevator.
In the rear of the building on tn
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