East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-03-12
CALL MADE FOR BIDS
ON IMPROVING HOTEL
PENDLFTON WILL BE REMODEL.
ED SO As TO BE MODERN
HOSTELRY.

That the plans TO make over the
Pendleton Hotel into new and mod
ern hostelry will be carried out in in
dicated by the fact that the hotel
company, Of which w. F. Matlock Is
president. today commenced adver-
tising for bids and will receive them
up until the 2sth of the month after
which time the contract will be let
The work is expected to be done in
the early fall.
The plans for the hotel were pre-
chitects Of Portland. which firm has
planned many hotels and buildings Of
note, among them being the 100000
Owyhee Hotel at Boise, and the 81,
000, 900 capitol of Idaho, the latter
said TO be the finest building, arc;ii-
tecturally, in the northwest.
The first story of the hotel is to be
completely changed. The lobby will
be on the Main street side, adjoining
the postoffice and will occupy the
place now taken by the buffet and
billiard room. The space at present
occupied by the lobby will be divid
ed, that portion on Water street be-
ing fitted up into a modern sanitary
barber shop and fitted into a unique
bar room.
The dining room will be made al
most twice as large as at present and
will have beamed ceilings, and indi-
rect lighting. II will have an out
side entrance from Water street. The
lobby is TO be imposing in its proper
tions and elegant in its detail and
finish. The floor will be of tile. the
base of marble, the colonades Of
scagliola and the ceilings beamed
and corniced with gypsum rock,
stucco. which when completed. will
have the appearance and brilliancy OF
hand carved statuary marble. The
office counter and partitions will be
of marble. scagliola and mahogany.
The entrance doors will be of ma
hogany glazed with bevelled plate
glass and sheltered by a large ar
tistic marquise. The greater portion
of the first story is to have tile floors
and marble base
The elevator will be a modern cleo
trio one with ornamental iron car and
fronts, finished bower-barff. The
interior finish will be enamelled ivory.
white in color. excepting the doors,
countertop and hand railing in con-
nection with the grand stairway
! which will be of deep. rich mahogany.
The second and third stories will
be entirely remodeled and refitted.
All old plastering will be removed
and rock gypsum wall plaster substi-
tuted
The additional two stories, the
fourth and fifth floors, will be ar
ranged and fitted up in an ideal man
ner. Every guest chamber will be an
outside room and will have clothes
closet and a toilet room.
on each of these stories there will
be two sample rooms. About so per
cent of the rooms are connected with
n private bath. many of these baths
being of the rain shower variety. A
ventilation system. thorough and
complete. is to connect all of these
bath and toilet rooms. through to the
open air, removing all odors, steam,
etc. and also acting as an aspirating
shaft for the bed rooms
The bath rooms will have walls and
floors enameled and fitted with por-
celain fixtures. The guest rooms will
be plastered with gypsum rock plast-
er and tinted in soft plasing tints.
The wood work will be plain. painted
white and enameled. excepting the
doors, which are to be of mahogany.
Nearly every room is to be supplied
with two windows and the artificial
illumination at night will be indirect,
by which means rooms will be flood
ed with a soft mellow light. and be
without shadows.
The building will be heated with
steam and the apparatus will be in
stalled to keep the temperature at the
right point for comfort and operate
noiseiessly.
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