The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-09
BUILDING WILL
COST 100000,
10 STORIES HIGH
Construction Contracts Have
Been Let on Structure.
Excavation Work in Old Base
ment Starts Monday.
Steel Superstructure viii Be
Completed by January 1.
EVERY DETAIL is WORKED OUT
Finance, Construction, Furnish
ings, Management.
Rush Contracts for Opening on
August 1 Next Year.
Lots Rented for Assembling OF
Material on Quincy Street.
Rush Contracts for Opening on
2 August 1 Next Year.
Lots Rented for Assembling OF
Material on Quincy Street.
HAVE ALL MODERN FEATURES
Roof Garden, Banquet Rooms,
Convention Hall.
800 Sleeping Rooms, $50 With
a South Frontage.

Work on completion of the
Hotel Kansan at Ninth street
and Kansas avenue will begin
Monday morning. Entire new
plans and drawings have been
made for the new hostelry. The
hotel is to be completed and open
to the public August l, 1928.
Every detail re gardin g
finance, construction, furnish
ing, management and operation
has been arranged for. 1t is now
merely a question of weeks and
months until the work can
actually be finished.
The Hotel Kansan will be ten
stories above basement. 1t will
cost 100000. That includes
S15O,O0O for furnishings and
equipment. There isn't dime
of the money to be arranged for.
There isn't a feature of the pro-
gram that hasn't been worked
out in detail.
Begin Work Monday.
When the first Free Fair crowd
comes to town Monday morning it
will see a gang of men with teams and
scrapers and graders completing ex-
cavations. Within ten days materials
will be on the grounds for work on
foundations. There won't be work
T,,E will activity on
the new. structure until it is opened
in ample time for accommodation OF
next years fair crowds.
Shepherd & Wiser, Kansas City
architects, made drawings for the
hotel some weeks ago. Construction
contracts have been let. Lessees have
been arranged for.
Earl Jennings of Kansas City is in
Topeka today making final arrange
ments for preliminary work and start
ing of the excavatjng crews Monday
morning Jennings represents the
Pratt-Thompson Construction COM
pany of Kansas City which has the
construction contract
To Have 800 Rooms.
The building. including site, will
cost $750,000.
In the hosiery will be 800 sleeping
rooms OF these thirty will have pri-
vate toilet and lavatory. The remain
ing 270 rooms will be complete with
bath.
Ten shops will be located in the
hotel building. All will be on the
street and lobby floor. Six shops will
face Kansas avenue, while four Will
have Ninth street entrances.
A coffee shop. owned and operated
by the hotel. may be entered from
Kansas avenue. The main lobby and
dining room will be on the street floor.
Off the mezZanine floor will be a
meet room and banquet room. Private
dining rooms will also be located on
ground and mezzanine floors.
Convention Hall Seats 500
A convention hall in the hotel build
ing will seat 500 people. 1t may be
thrown into a banquet hall or dance
hall if desired.
The entire tenth floor will be given
over for roof garden purposes. Special
kitchens will be located on the roof
floor. Plans call for an enclosed roo:
garden making the floor accessible
for either summer or winter use.
Frontage on Ninth
Main frontage of the hotel will be
on Ninth street The building will
have a frontage of $50 feet on Ninth
and 100 feet on Kansas avenue. An
open court facing Ninth street will
break away from the closed court plan
and at the same time permit the as
signment of every guest to an open
room.
Facing of the hotel on Ninth street
will have another big advantage. Il