The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
Details Given Out by Archi-
tect Weston Yesterday
for the New Million
Dollar Structure
EXTENT OF PLANS
DELAY COMPLETION
UNTIL NEXT JUNE
Will Be Twelve Stories High, Have
300 Rooms and All the Newest
Features to Make 1t One of
the Finest Hostelries
in the South
By CLYDE w. ENNIS

BY (1st Dtl W. ENNIS
After maintaining the closet secrecy in
reference to their building and its details
the officials of the Hotel Roden yesterday
made public the plans and the architects
sketch of the front elevation This is the
first official detailed information that
either of the two companles-the Tutwiler
or the Roden-has given out
The plans of the Roden hotel as de-
tailed by William c. Weston, the arch!-
teet, for that new slooO,OO0 investment,
have all been completed Employees or
Mr.. Westons office. assisting their chief,
have been constantly at work getting out
the details down to every door. hook
and hinge And at this time Mr.. Wes-
ton is ready to battle with the real con-
struction after the foundation pits have
been completed. That win be. roughly
speaking. in about two or three weeks.
The steel has been ordered and is being
made by the American Bridge company.
Local freight officials have tips that q
movement of that cargo will commence
within a very short time.
Completed Next June
Mr. Weston has Incorporated in his
and has embodied so many new fea-
lures of hotel construction here as to
shove the time of completion up from
January 1. 1913, until the latter part o.
June next year. Not move will be
made to open the new Roden until every
chair is in place and every flower box
is filled with fragrant blossoms. How
ever the Roden officials hope that the
Eighteenth street hosiery will be In oper
alton under the management of the
Hervey brothers before the Tutwiler has
been two-thirds completed. That is what
they say about It,
The Roden will be Il stories high, not
including the mezzanine floor or the spa
cious roof garden. which will cap the
construction. There will be 800 cham
bers In the hotel. Everyone of them
will open outside. They will be ar
ranged for the maximum amount of fresh
air. plenty of sunshine and facilities for
cleaning. The construction will be of terra
Gotta and brick Flower boxes will be
in all windows. Each room will be
equipped with adjoining baths. either
tub or shower. The baths will be lined
with marble half way and will have tiled
floors.
The Ladies' Entrance
Entering the hotel from the Fifth
avenue side, which will be the ladies
entrance. one may walk directly into
the ladies' parlor, 23 feet by 80 feet,
adorned with all the elegance which
may be consistently worked into the
scheme. Ladies entering through the
Fifth avenue entrance may walk d.
rectly into the colonial cafe, A feet
by So feet, or into the Pompeiian gar
den, which will be % feet by 81 feet.
There will be located a grand fountain
in the center, while the principal win
dow will be of art glass IMPLYING the
southern lilacs, which are so we'll known
in this section. All points of the main
floor are connected.
One enters the hotel from the Eight
zenith street elevation through folding
doors into the grand lobby. 40 feet by
| 92 feet. On the right of the entrance
VIII be flower stand and on the left
will be cigar stand The pergola ter
race, Is feet by lao feet, will be along
the Eighteenth street side of the hotel,
| extending across the front of the build
ing. Tropical and native flowers will
| adorn the pergola terrace and will be
kept in bloom continuously on the
main floor will be located the tap
rooms the sea food grill, adjoining,
which will be a serving room and one of
| the kitchens. Writing rooms, check
rooms and other conveniences will be
worked into places on the main floor.
Grand Marble Staircase
The grand marble staircase will lead
| from the lobby to the mezzanine floor
and to the promenade circling an open
well looking into the lobby below. The
well will be covered with art glass,
which will make a beautiful light effect
| In the lobby, as well as on the MAJ
FAMINE floor. From the promenade one
fatu rf.l, ant int flaa
loggia, where Is located an open fire.
place. Bridges will he worked insead
ing to the upper part of the Pompeiian
garden looking into the main Pompeiian
room, which will be raised slightly
above the lobby elevation and the
pergola. Another bridge enters into the
| ball room and banquet chamber, which
will be called Roden Hall. This room
will be one of the most stately places
of the whole building. 1t will be A
! feet by 81 feet. On the Seventeenth
street end of this room will be located
| the stage from which speeches may be
| delivered and in the rear will be a serv-
ing room. on the Eighteenth street end
will be the stag room, connected by
staircase to Roden Hall and leading to
the gallery overlooking Roden Hall
This gallery circles the grand ball
room.
! On the messanine floor will be To-
.cated the state suite, consisting OF one
salon and two chambers. Marble baths
| will be located between the two cham
bers of the suite. Three private dining
rooms will also be there, which will be
in English decoration. rose decoration
| and Martha Washington decoration.
connected with the private dining rooms
will be a reception parlor for those us
ing the private dining rooms; cloak
rooms, hair dressing parlors bell hope"
room, and serving rooms will be includ-
ed in the equipment of the mezzanine
| floor.
Roof Garden on Top
The top of the building will be con-
| verified into a roof garden exclusively.
! All three of the elevators will be oper-
ated to the roof garden as well as to
| the basement, where. as a matter of
| course, all machinery will be located.
| The roof garden Will have prom
enade the entire length of the building.
A pergola scheme viii be worked into
the feature The promenade deck will
be 10 feet wide. There will be tile
floors there with all necessary serving
kitchens and retiring rooms. The roof
garden is expected to be especially at
J tractive. The place will have enclosed
dining rooms in the event shower