Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-03-17
PLANS FOR new MILLER
Hotel Have ARRIVED
STEEL FRAME STRUCTURE EN-.
TIRELY FIRE PROOF CORNER
MAIN AND FIFTH.
Finish and Furnishings Will Be Of the
Latest Design - Two Store Rooms
On Main Floor.

The plans for the new Hotel MIL
Ter, which E. G. Patterson is to erect
at the corner of Main and Sixth
streets, were brought back from st.
Paul yesterday, when Mr.. Patterson
returned from tour of the eastern
cities, where he had been with Mrs.
Patterson, making a study of the de-
velopments in hotel architecture. The
plans, which were drawn by Herman
Kretz Of St. Paul, provide for a
building which, in construction and
appointments, will place Bismarck in
the front rank Of cities entertaining
large travelling clientel. Mr.. Kretz,
who drew the plans, will be remem-
bered by old timers as a resident Of
Bismarck many years ago. He has
attained to much eminence in bis pro-
fession and is known as one of the
foremost architects Of the country.
~ planss provide fore a'steel frame
trhcture, five stories high with the
walls of Twin City brick and trim
mings Of Bedford stone. It will be
140x75 feet and will be entirely fire.
proof; the only wood entering into
the construction being the frames Of
the windows and the doors.
The facade shows a handsome
structure with a rounded corner pro-
jecting slightly over the hotel en-
trance. There will be provisions
made for two stores to the west Of
the lobby on Main street, the rest Of
the building being devoted wholly to
the hotel proper. The lobby will be
on the street level and will be 36x62
feet in dimensions, and provision is
made for a big fireplace. To the left
of the lobby will be the elevator and
Directly in the rear will be the prin-
cipal dining room. There will be an
other dining room opening on the
Fifth street side.
The upper floors will be practically
identical with the floor plan of the
second story, which provides for a
large parlor on the corner, which will
be omitted on the other three stories.
All of the outside rooms will have
private baths and every room in the
house will have hot and cold water.
The rooms will be 19x1O in the clear
and will have, in addition to the bath
rooms, big closets, and there will be
public baths on each floor.
The inner walls will be substan-
TALLY built and deadened; the floors
will be OF concrete, eight inches thick,
imposed upon steel framework. The
walls and roof will be so constructed
as to permit of the imposition OF adj
ditional stories up to ten, and the
entire building will be built with a
view of making it the most complete
and most modern hotel in the north
west, as well as one Of the largest.
There will be about 100 rooms for the
guests, in all.
The details of the plan have been
worked out and Mr.. Patterson says
that work win begin in the course of
a few days. The buildings now oc-
cupying the site will be removed to
the lot on the opposite corner as soon
as the necessary formalities have
been gone through, and the site will
be excavated SO as to permit of a
basement that will be high and roomy.
In this basement Turkish bath will
be established.
The cost of the structure will b.
about 100000, unfurnished. The
furnishings will be made to order,
there will be telephone in each of
the guest rooms and the telephone
equipment will extend to the tables
of the dining room. The hotel will
be run on the European plan,