Year: 1870

This splendid new hotel, one of the best.


if not the best in Vermont, is rapidly ap-


preaching completion in its internal ar


rangements, and will be thrown open to


the public on Monday next 1t has


already become recognized as one of our


home institutions ard as such is deserving
of at least brief mention.


1t is situated on the corner of Merchants
Row and Center street. an eligible place
for business men and travellers generally,
a fact which if it had none other 10 rec
ommend it, would of itself be sufficient
to commend it to the patronage of the
public. But it has many others, which


will be seen ere we have done our notice
of it.


The main entrance is on Merchants
Row, with ladies or private entrance
on Center street. From the former
thoroughfare we ascend by broad and
easy stairway to the office, large, light
and airy apartment. with marble floor
of parti-colors, laid diagonally, and every
thing in the shape of furniture and i'm





make it attractive for guests. The office
is situated in the center of the building,
and on the corner Of Merchants Row and
Center street. on this, the first floor
proper Of the hotel, il the reading room,
also light, roomy and attractive, in fact
Just where guests, if they have an eve
ming or few hours in daytime to spend,
will find it pleasant and profitable TO
while away the time. To the north OF
the office is the main parlor, magnifi-
Gently earpeted and furnished apartment,
whose superior in this light is hard 10 be
found anywhere la the rear, or east OF
the office is large sample room, for the
accommodation of travelling business men,
Just across the hail from which is the
barber shop and water closets, and further
back the wash room, smaller sample
room and billiard room, in which two
Phelan s. Collender tables have just been
placed. At the north end of the house
on this floor is the dining hall, SO feet
long, of proportionate width and capable
of seating at one time 100 Persons. In
the rear OF this is the carving room with
heating apparatas of the most approved
stamp, and little beyond, the kitchen,
pantries, store rooms, dining room for help,
&c, with all furniture and appointments
which go to show the intention of the
proprietor to run it as first-class house.
On the floor below this, or the store floor,
in the rear, is the laundry, fitted up with
modern improvements, and TO be in the
charge of a competent laundress, while in
the cellar are store rooms and alsrge boiler
wherein is generated the steam by which
the house is warmed. In this connection
we would state that the house is warmed
throughout by steam, such thing as cold
room being unknown within its walls, q
luxury not always found in hotels having
first-elass pretensions; and a luxury we
are informed for which no extra charge is
to be made. The Office, parlors, halls and
larger rooms are provided with radiators
for dispensing heat, of neat and orna-
mental pattern, from the establishment of
L. G. Clogston & Co., of Boston, the plumb
ing connected with which was done par
tally by Mr.. Gustine of Keene, n. 81,
and partially by Mr.. Lippincott of this
place, and which with all other work
about the house is creditable alike TO itself
and the artizans who performed it. We
may here also state that the beds, bedding
and linnen for this house, all of the very
best quality, and host of it, is from the
house of A. T. Stewart of New York,
while the crockery, class, china and plated
ware, of which there is also host and of
neat patterns and designs is from the es-
of f. V. Haughwout & Co,
of the same city.


The two stories above the office fat are
into parlors and sleeping rooms,
many of which are furnished especially
for families, and nearly all arranged so
that they can be used single or in suites as
occasion requires These are all finished
in hard woods, luxuriantly furnished and
present appearance of home as near as can
be unless one is actually ensconced in
the domicile where ''be is lord of all he
In short the house is all that
can be asked for, and more than could
be expected in a place of the
size of our town. II is provided with
bath rooms for ladies, gentlsmen and
children indeed nothing has been omit
ted which wit could conceive of or money
purchase to make it what the public de-
mand and are willing to pay for entertain
ment at-a first-class house. 1t il to be
presided over by Daniel Kellogg, Jr, late
Of Brattleboro, as landlord, with Mr.. L.
G.. Weeks, of much hotel experience in
the Pavilion at Montpelier and Brattle-
boro House, Brattleboro, as clerk, the for
mcr, of whom has yet 10 win his reputa-
ton as a public caterer, but the latter of
whom is known TO travellers ar one of the
most obliging and accommodating young
men that ever wore pen over his ear.


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