The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-05-25
ROXANA HALL WILL
Open ON JUNE 1ST;
new MANAGEMENT
Experienced Hotel Man to Have
Charge of Hosiery; Will Ca
ter to Summer Tourists

What is predicted as distinct as
set to Marietta will open June 1st,
when Roxana Hall, the spacious house
and estate on the city's edge, will be
thrown open to select class of sum-
mer and tourist guests as a hotel un-
der the management of j. Harrell
Powell, well known Georgia hotel
man who has been retained to sup
ervise the operation.
In opening the hotel for Southern
ers and others who will come, the
management has seized the idea Of
ten expressed locally that Marietta
offers numberless advantages to those
who seek rest and solitude among
comfortable surroundings for their
"off moments" during the hotter
days. 1t is also believed by those
who are fully acquainted with the
plans that this venture will afford
Marietta the opportunity to have her
desirability as a resort center proven
to the limit.
Mr.. Powell, who has been in the
city for several days making arrange
ments and preparing for the opening,
states that reservations already re-
quested since it was privately an
nounced that the hotel would open,
have assured a capacity house on the
opening day.
The experience of Mr. Powell in
the hotel business, according to the
belief expressed by the owners of
the hostelry, fit him we'll to under
take this management, since his
knowledge of the business includes
commercial hotels, operated on both
the American and European plans,
winter resort hotels and summer re-
sort hotels. Among the hotels with
which he has been associated are
the Wigwam, at Indian Springs, the
Dinkler, in Macon, and Putnam Inn,
in DeLand, Fla.
RoXana Hall has for a number Of
years been one of Marietta's show
places. Resting on a knoll that over
looks the Dixie Highway, the beau
.tiful home, originally built as sort
of manor house for a large estate,
above a valley bounded on the other
side by Big and Little Kennesaw.
The high location of the building,
and the nStural beauties of the land
surrounding, fit it admirably for the
purposes, which it will serve.
In altering the building so that it
can serve in hotel capacity, atten-
ton has been paid to retaining the
luxurious home effect for which the
place has been noted and in adding
those nicities of comfort and luxury
which will make it an ideal resting
place for those accusomed to every
convenience.
AS it now stands, Roxana Hall has
about twelve single rooms which are
provided with private or connecting
Saith in addition to- sevei'al large
suites, which can be used either as
family apartments or separated into
individual rooms.
Besides the location of the home,
and the fact that it centers the gent
ly rolling mountain terrain in this
section, it is believed that great ad-
vantage, as a drawing power, will be
derived from the excellent country
club which Marietta possesees-ad-
mittedly one of the best appointed
in the state, especially in so far as its
golf course is concerned. Golfers
the south over know the Marietta
golf course as one of the best small
courses in use.
Minor. improvements and additions
are now being made to Roxana Hall
under Mr.. Powell's supervision, and
the management says that the date
of June 1st is definitely set upon as
the opening day.