Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1919 — CITY TO HAVE NEW HOTEL [ARTICLE]

CITY TO HAVE NEW HOTEL

New Hotel Building To Be Erected Soon TO COST SIOO,OOO Fendig Corner Is To Be New Build> 1 ing Site. Articles of incorporation for the Rensselaer Hotel'Co. were filed with the Secretary of State Monday. The capital stock is SIOO,OOO, divided into shares of SIOO each. The object of the Association as stated in the articles of incarporais to build and conduct a hotel in Rensselaer. rz

Plans for the erection of a hotel to cost in the neighborhood of on the Fendig corner on Front street in Rensselaer are already well under way and it is expected that work will begin within the next ten days to prepare the ground for the building. J. R. Looflirpa, an Indianapolis architect, was in Rensselaer last week with the completed plans and submitted them to the promoters of, the hotel, and they were approved with a few minor changes. Mr. Looflirpa estimated the building will cost about SBO,OOO, and the furniture $20,000. The building will be of steel construction, with Bedford stone finish on Front and Washington streets. It will have a frontage of 100 feet on both Front and Washington streets, with a large court in the eenter. There will be a. basement under the entire building, Which will be used for the furnacq, laundry and for storage pulposes for the hotel and the business rooms on the first floor. The building will be three stories. On the first floor will be the hotel office, dining room three business rooms on Front street and two on Washington street. The hotel office will be located in the southeast corner of the building, with a corner hotel office, dining room, three buslocated on the first floor, extending from Washington street in the rear of the building south fifty feet. The west side of the. dining room will be of glass, the room being really a sun parlor, affording a fine view of the beautiful Milroy Park and the fine residences surrounding the park. Large covered verandas will be located on both the east and west sides of the building on the second and third floors. Between the office and the dining room will be the Western Union office andtwo samplerooms. On Front street facing the K. of P. building will be three medium size business rooms. The building will bp set back a few feet from Front street, in order to make the street wider at that point in order to give room for parking automobiles, as the street is rather narrow at present. There will be sixty rooms for guests and a third of these will be provided with bath and toilet, with hot and cold water. There will be an electric elevator located in the office. On the top floor will be a large room in which to hold banquets and dances. The office furniture will be in keeping with the magnificence of the building proper, as well as the furnishings of the entire building. Two parties, whose names we are not at liberty to make public at present, have each subscribed for $25,000 worth of stock and it is expected to make up the other $50,000 of subscriptions from the merchants whose interests are in that end of town and frqjn the residents livirig across t/ho rivcT. It is hoped inConnection with this improvement to interest the city ‘council in the project o9»buying the Glazebrook property south of the hotel grounds and converting this property into a swimming pool and park and this matter will be brought before the council at an eary day It is expected to begin the work of tearing down the residence portion of the building now on the. ground within ten days and the balance of the building now occupied by the creamery as soon as the present,, tenant can vacate. (It is indeed a pleasure for the Republican to be able to note this spirit of progress on the part of the citizens of Rensselaer on this first day of April, 1919, better known as April Fools Day.)