The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1910-05-10
TO REBUILD
''GILKESON''

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Walker. formerly of this city and now
of Los Angeles. Calf. the property
at the corner of Third street and
RicLardson avenue known as The
GiIkeson hotel, Including a quarter of
a block OF ground. The price paid
was $20,O0U. The new proprietor will
start work within thirty days renod-
cling the hotel, increasing its size and
capacity. and in all having a proper
ty costing 100000
The new Giikesoa will be a preten-
tiols building having a frontage OF
lis feet. all OF which will have either
piil;lsed or arched porch and the
central portion having court, in
which will be left four of the big
trees now standing west of the pres
ent building
The addition will be in THE form of
4 triple IL making the whole build
'ng a letter III" of which the pres
mt structure will form one Of the up
right bars. On the west side the
present building, separated bv about
fortyeight feet of space, will be a
wing simil3r to the present building,
having a front to correspond with the
front of the present house. remodeled.
The new wing on the west will be IL
feet wide and sixty feet deep. Then.
these two bars" of the letter, will
be connected hy AZ foot crossbar of
rooms that will he Immediately back
of the court in the front and center
of the complete structure.
The two main sections of uhe house
will nave pillared fronts. and the
connecting bar will have an arched
front, similar to the arched porch of
the Elk teirpie. The front of eAe old
building will be re-rodeled to some
extent. making the pillars larger at
the base. The whole house will be OF
mifom appearance. being made of
cement brick and of uniform height,
two stories.
The lobby will be in the bar con-
Meeting the two main wings of the
house. 1t will have a tiled floor and
viii, be .nodern l.: every respect. The
whole house will be fitted with a tele
phone system and private bath will
re within reach of Svery room. Steam
heat will be installed, for which a
basement will he placed IN the new
section on the west. On the ground
floor OF the new section will be mod
ern sample rooms. with sleeping
rooms and bath attached The base
ment will afford room for the storage
of a carload of coal.
Tie porch in front of the lobby
will be ten feet wide and will he back
from the sidewalk a distance equal to
the width Of the present front porch
Above the porch of the lobby will be
sleeping rooms.
The addition means more and bet
ter lobby room, more and better sam
pie rooms and twenty additional
sleeping rooms. The furnishing will
be Of the best
Mr. GilEeson has been running a
aotel in Roswell four wears, next fall,
and has made a great success. As
for1ner manager for Fred Harvey. 1t
has heen his principle to serve the
public in the cleanest, best manner
possible, considering the price of sup
plies. price of help and the price of
meals: and the vote of the public has
been one % approval. In short, he
mas made a great success. as shown
bv his present advancement. The
people of Roswell will be glad to see
him have a large hotel and better en-
tertai1rnent for the city's guests.
The lids for the work will be let
as soon as the plans and specifica-
tions are finished, which will be in
two or tlree weeks. Mr.. GilkesOn
nopes to have the ectual work started
n thirty days. The plans are being
drawn ty ]. w. Bates. the architect,
who came recently from Colorado and
has bought out the office of Col. J.
VI. Nielsen. in the Oklahoma block.