Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-09-04

diameter. to occupy the larger part of
the front portion of the basement ON the
fSth street side. Connecting with the grill
VIII DO five private dining rooms. The
barber shop and Turkish baths will be
on the Hth street corner. The entire rear
of the basement will be used for the
kitchen and service departments. The
kitchen Will be 200 feet wide and about 100
feet deep on the 44th street side.
BALCONIES TO OVERLOOK LOBBY.
The main entrance to the hotel will be
on Broadway in the middle of the block,
but there will be additional entrances on
both Ath and 45th streets. These three
| entrance hall ways will lead to a large
circular lobby in the centre OF the build
Ing This lobby will be one Of the strik-
Ing features Of the house. 1t will run up
to the third story, surrounded on the up
per floors by artistic balconies. The en-
| trance Railways, as well as the great
lobby. will be finished in italian marble.
The bar and cafe restaurant will occupy
the entire 44th street side of the building,
the bar being on the Broadway corner.
The main dining room will be at the rear
on the 45th street side.
In rear hallway leading from the
lobby opposite TO the main entrance will
be the elevators, including eight for
passenger use four service elevators and
one for freight
The mezzanine floor above the main
floor will have two prominent character
istics, the number of It's banquet rooms,
and It's display booths There Will be
seven banquet rooms, the largest of
which will be on the Forty-tifth street
side in the rear Immediately over the
main dining room on the ground floor.
This large room will be surrounded by
a balcony and musicians headquarters
at one end. The other feature Will be
ten show rooms occupying the entire
forty fourth street side. These rooms
will be handsomely decorated and will
be rented to milliners, modtstes and
others for tho display of goods The
Broadway front will be utilized by a
large loggia in the centre, with drawing
and writing rooms on either side In
the middle of the floor will be balconies
ornamented with marble columns, over
looking the office lobby below.
TO ACCOMMODATE $500 GUESTS.
The second floor will be the ball room
and entertainment floor. The bali room
will occupy the entire Forty-ffth street
side with the exception of a small con-
Meeting banquet room on the Broadway
corner 1t will be IL by 1873 feet, and will
be surrounded with balcony Is feet
wide. 1t will be richly decorated. On
no
large banquet rooms, and there will be
the usual lounging rooms for men and
women. Twenty-one floors of the new
hotel will be devoted to guests rooms.
There will be eighty-five rooms on each
Of these floors. Most of them will be
single rooms with baths. The total num-
Der of rooms for the twenty-one floors
will be 1,7S5 With the double rooms.
there will be accommodations for $50
persons. There will be sixteen single
rooms without baths on each floor. 336
in all. each with private toilet. For
these rooms the price will be sl.50 a day.
The single rooms with baths will cost
$3.50 day while the double rooms with
baths and the suites Of two to three
rooms will be IS and upward On the
roof will be a large pent house for the ac-
commodation Of a portion of the hotel
nelp.
The exterior Of the hotel will be FIN
ished in white. For the nrst Eve stories
on the Broadway and street fronts lime
stone will be used. and above this will
be glazed terra Gotta and light brick.
The general architectural style will be
French renaissance
cOrnmerCfQl
activities in the Times square section.
the location of Sterns new department
store, On Forty-second street and Sixth
avenue. just a short distance to the
east, and the remarkable business in
vason up Fifth avenue. the daily as
well as nightly population around Times
square abs increased enormously,
and. despite the number of hotels In the
locality, the projectors of this new enter
prise have felt that the time was ripe
for another large house.
The property so soon to be improved
has an interesting history. Oscar Ham,
built the New York theatre
In 1896 He called 1t the Olympia. and
for a time it was the wonder of New
York. containing Is 1t did n music hall.
theatre, concert hall. roof garden, and
billiard parlor. Times square was not
then the great theatre center which II
has since become. Mr.. Hammerstein
was a little ahead of the time. and the
New York Life Insurance company.
which held mortgages on the property,
instituted foreclosure proceedings, and
In 1898 bought II in for s967.4O0. a few
years later, Henry B. Sire bought the
property for 100000, but he like Mr. |
found it white elephant |
klaw & Erlanger, with other interests |
took over the property several years ago
In the name Of the New York Theatre |
company