Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-07-16
NORMANDIE IS
FINE HOTEL
Repaired and Enlarged, It's
38 Rooms Are Inviting
and Cosy
STEAM HEAT, PRIVATE PHONES
Sunshine in All Rooms and All
Look on the Street.
VIII Soon Open.


With everything except carpets and
furniture. the Hotel NOrmandie i'm
proved, enlarged and made thorough
ly up-to-date, now stands ready for a
tenant who will open it to the travel
ing as we'll as the non-transient pub
lie.
The hotel building, which has long
been a familiar sight on Don Gaspar
avenue and Water street, and which
was closed for repairs and improve
Iments last November, would scarcely
be recognized today, so greatly has it
changed. Practically new story has
been added 10 the structure making
it three stories high; it has been con-
siderably altered inside, and the walls
! have been papered or painted in deli
cate shades, giving the place all the
air of a big hosiery without the
noise and hustle attending the arrival
or departure Of guests, or calls of
front from the desk.
Campbell Brothers are the build
ers who have put the hotel in the up
to-date class and the owners of the
structure are much pleased with their
work.
Fine Dining Room.
On entering the hotel one finds a
large office room through which one
passes to the dining room at the
right, 1t will seat so people and will
be lighted at night by AZ incandes-
cents. 1t will be really a cheerful
room for every meal just as it should
be-
Back of the dining room is a pantry
and back of it the large kitchen with
concrete floor which is so con-
structed as to admit of easy flooding
in true Cuban style, thus saving
sweeping. To one side is a commo-
dious store room.
There are three guest rooms on the
first floor and they face Water street
and all are we'll lighted Tha-next
lfioor is given up entirely to guests
rooms, of which there are IS. The
rooms are neatly papered, and the
windows are fitted with Holland
shades and screens. The corridors
are papered in red with cream cell
ings giving rich effect which will
be accentuated with a suitable car
pet on the floor. There are two rooms
on this floor with private baths and
there is also a bath room for the
occupants of rooms without private
baths.
The next floor is much the same in
arrangements, there being also two
rooms with private BATH bath room,
and a suite of rooms. There are II
, rooms on the third floor. and even
, the smallest is so well lighted and
ventilated that it looks quite desir-
able
Every room has a private phone or
will have in a few days, for the
wires are laid, and this means much
convenience to those who are ad-
! verse to getting up good circulation
climbing stairs to call on their friends
or leave messages.
Splendid Boiler.
A splendid engine or boiler has been
placed in the boiler room in the base
ment to generate steam which will
warm every nook of the hotel when
the sun which streams into every
room loses its power to do so. This
boiler has been purchased at great
expense but the cry for steam heat
! nt hn
is thoroughly fireproof. Near it is
a laundry room of up-todate pattern
and nearby is toilet room for the
use of hotel employees.
Sample Room.
! 1t is said that the hotel is fitted up
with the most modern plumbing sys-
tenn and this of itself is a strong rec
ommendation. In every room is
steam radiator and an electric light.
This will mean comfort and protec-
tion during the cold days of winter.
Plumbing and Lighting.
| The large room formerly occupied
as a real estate office is to be turned
into a sample room and as it faces
Don Gaspar avenue and is easy of
access, it ought to prove success as
SUCH There is another room like it
which was used as a jewelry store
and it will also be put into service
when the hotel is opened.
A number OF, people have been
studying the hotel and it's improve
! ments with a view of applying for
lease but its owners so far are unde-
| cided as to whom to rent it, but
the matter will likely be determined