The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-07-29
Buys Property at the Corner of Park and Sher-
idan Road through A. T. Stahl Company
on Saturday Afternoon.
WILL EXPEND 100000 TO BUILD IT
Hotel and Business Block Will Be Six Stories High
Model Hotel Farm at TruesdelI to Furnish
Table with All Food Products

The home town patriot who is to be
build great modern hotel for Keno
sha has at last been found and within
a few weeks work will be started on
what promises to be the modern mod
ern hotel in southern Wisconsin. 1t
will be located at the corner of Park
street and Sheridan road 1t will have
a three hundred room capacity and it
will be modern in every respect.
Matt A. Rasmussen of the town of
Somers, is the home town patriot and
he has announced that three hundred
thousand dollars will be expended
to make the hotel the best that could be
offered in town the size of Kenosha.
Buys Site on Saturday.
Mr.. Rasmussen has been consider
ing the plan of giving Kenosha the
kind Of a hotel it needs for some time
and he burned the bridges behind him
j last Saturday when through the A. F.
Stahl agency, which had been commits
stoned to get site for the hotel, he
closed a deal for the Park street loca-
ton The property purchased fronts
seventy-fve feet ON Park street, ninety
eight feet on Sheridan road and it has
piece Of fifty-fve feet in the rear
of the Mantkus garage. 1t is admir-
ably located for hoted purposes The
Stahl company was given the commits
sion to get hotel site less than a
week ago and the real estate company
went at the work with rush and
closed the deal Saturday. The west
portion of the property was owned by
l.. Lama and the east portion by +.
Risch. While the consideration for
the property was not made public, it
was said to have been in the neighbor-
hood Of twenty-five thousand dollars.
Rasmussen Outlines Plans.
M. A. Rasmussen, who is to build and
manage the hotel, is considered one
of the most successful men in Keno
sha county. He is able to take care of
the entire project and he has announc-
ed that this plans include the sale of
his great cabbage and onion farms in
the neighborhood Of the village Of
Somers in the near future. II am will
ing to start the movement for the hotel
with my contribution of $150,000," he
said when a company is organized
other people in the city may be given
chance to join me in the enterprise
but if it is deemed advisable l will
take care of the entire expenditure.
estimate that the cost of the build
ing and the furnishings will be in ex
cess Of 100000, 1t is my plan to build
for Kenosha a hotel which will meet
the demand of a city of hundred
thousand and meet them in the right
way. There is to be ample rooms to
take care of the demands of the grow
ing city and the hotel will be made
attractive to local people as we'll as
transients 1t will be just around the
corner from the Elks' club, just across
the street from the new court house,
within a block of the street car lines
leading to the interurban stations, and
right on the Sheridan road to be pass
ed by the great number of tourists
coming over that road every day.
am going to make it suitable
part of the great civic center that
has been proposed"
Unique Proposition Planned.
The new Rasmussen hotel is not go
ing to be dependent on the Chicago and
Milwaukee markets for its food supply.
"Home cooking and 'Home raised"
food is going to mean something on
the menu. Mr.. Rasmussen plans to
retain his great farm near the village
of TruesdeH and it will be used entire
ly to supply the hotel with the vari-
Gus food articles. 1t is announced that
a herd of two hundred steers will be
constantly fattened at the farm and
all meat to be used at the hotel will
be killed in especially built slaughter
houses at the farm. A large acreage
at the farm will be given over for the
raising of fresh vegetables, fruits and
berries for the hotel and immense hot
houses will be constructed to provide
ripe vegetables and berries in off sea
sons. The chickens to be served in
the hotel will all be milk fed
chickens from the hotel farms.
The Rasmussen farm out near Trues-
dell is considered the best improved
farm in Kenosha county of it's size.
Recently Sc tons Of Alsace clover
were cut from one twenty-five acre
field in the farm and this clover will be
used for fattening steers to make sir
loin steaks and roasts for the hotel.
Start Work at Once.
Architects have been commissioned
TO provide plans for the hotel building
at once. Mr.. Rasmussen has outlined
the general plan for the building. It
will front on Park street and it will
have three stories and hotel entrance
on this street. The building will be
six stories in heighth, covering the
entire ground purchased. The, arch
fleets have been instructed to make
the building one which will prove a
distinct ornament to Kenosha. 1t will
probably take a year to erect and
furnish the building, but the plans
made provision that it be ready for
opening by the end Of 1921.
Before deciding on the hotel propo-
sition Mr.. Rasmussen had the matter
up with many of the most prominent
men Of the city and they have assured
him that the proposed plan will meet
one of the greatest needs of Kenosha.
1t was announced on Saturday that
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