The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-10
HOTEL STUMPF TO
DOUBLE CAPACITY
Plans Call for Scven-Story Annex
to Be Completed This
Year.
ADDITION TO COST $4,000
Will Give Enlarged Hosiery
Modern Fircprooi Structure
With Is Rooms.

! Plans have been filed in the Building
Inspectors office for i ,cvcn-story an
mex to Stumpfs Hotel. which. when
completed, will practically double Its
capacity. Building Inspector Butler,
with his staff. was engaged yesterday
| in going over the architects drawings,
and WAS of the opinion that they would
be ratified within the next few days
With the filing of the plans began
the work of tearing down the store
building at 72S East Main Street. the
site of which adjoins the present hotel
building. and which Will be used for
the new annex. The property fronts
eighteen feet on Main Street, and to-
Sether with the present building, Will
give the enlarged hotel a forty-four
foot frontage on Main Street Work
on the demolition of the old building.
which was until recently occupied by
{, poolroom, has boon in progress since
Monday.
VIII Add ThIrty-Five Rooms.
The new building will conform to the
same general type as the old. and will
add thirty-five rooms TO the hotels
equipment. Like the older building
it VIII be fireproof throughput. Each
of the new rooms will be equipped with
private bath. The annex. situated
as 1t Will be on an adjoining site. will
form, with the original structure a
single enlarged hotel building with Il
single rooming capacity of seventy
five.
Contracts for the construction OF the
new hotel have been awarded to the
Gibsonite Construction Company of ST.
Louis. and call for the completion of
the work on December /. The plans
have been prepared by Widmann Il
Walsh. architects. of St Louis.
Manager Z. a. Stumpf said last night
that the work begun this week will
continue without interruption until the
new structure is complete. The cost
or the addition, he estimated will be
$4,000 The figures are for the build
ing alone the site itself being valued
at n like amount.
Will Enlarge Lobby.
The building of the annex will en-
able the management to carry out i'm
prorements which ii has long contem-
plated The lobby will be enlarged to
extend across the front of the double
building, and will have its principal
entrance on Main Street. Manager
Stumpf said last night that the hotel
had under consideration plans which
| called for a granite first story for the
double building. II the plans are
adopted the first story of the present
building Will undergo extensive trans
formation. 1t Is proposed to finish the
interior OF the new lobby in marble.
Upon the completion OF the annex the
rat hskeller will be enlarged and reno
waited. 1t Will be provided with al, en-
trance from the street for the conve-
nience of women patrons. The eIeva-
tor VIII be shifted from the present
cramped position to the new building,
and Will serve the enlarged hotel \
marble staircase Will run through the
centre OF the double building
Among mechanical improvements will
ne an air shaft on the west side of the
building running from the kitchen in
the basement through the seventh floor.
II is designed to eliminate the odors
and heat which escape from the Gull
nary department of the hotel