Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1920 — HISTORIC LAFAYETTE HOTEL ORDERED CLOSED [ARTICLE]

HISTORIC LAFAYETTE HOTEL ORDERED CLOSED

Unless extensive repairs ordered by the state fire are made at the Bramble house in Lafayette, the historic establishment, which for nearly seventy-five years has been doing business at the same location, must close its doors. The hotel is one of the oldest in Indiana. In its early days it was visited by many distinguished men .including •Presidents, United States senators, supreme court judges and celebrated actors. The formal opening of the hotel, after it had been rebuilt and refurnished in 1855, was an event of such importance that it brought several hundred visitors to the city at « time when railroads were still a curiosity in Indiana. During the last ten years it has changed hands several times.