Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1912 — CLASSIC INN FOR STOCK SHOW. [ARTICLE]

CLASSIC INN FOR STOCK SHOW.

Chicago, 111., Nov. 11.—Rising from the ashes of the historic Transit House aft the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, are the walls of the quaintest hostelry Chicago ever had—the “STOCK YARD INN,” which will be ready for the entertainment of visitors to the next International Live Stock Exposition, November 30th to December 7th. To furnish an adequate hotel for representatives of the great breeding and agricultural interests, who annually are attracted to the greatest live stock exposition the world ever knew, and to eradicate the scars left by the'destruction of the old Transit House, the Stock Yard Company early planned to erect a new home for its patrons, adopting the Elizabethan old English style of architecture. With steel and reinforced concrete forming the principal basis for the structure, the completed hotel "will seem “comfy” and home like to the farmers,* graziers and experts who come to Chicago. It will represent almokt the last word in appointments for luxury, good service, sanitation and good cheer. It will be reminiscent in its architecture and permanency of construction of the country, which evolved the principles of breeding and the age which heralded the beginning of the Improvement of the types of meat animals—the gate-way to the greatest meat market lot the world. With a frontage of 220 feet cn Halsted street and a depth of 280

fe«t the building will have a broad central corridor and double wing extensions in the middle and on the weal end. The exterior treatment to emphatically Elizabethan: the' foundation of concrete, the first story of red brick and the second and third stories of the impressive half-timber-ed many-gabled style of architecture. The driveway from Halsted street leads through the first floor into a large open grass court. The central -tature of this court is a reproduction of the famous Hereford town hall in England, built in about 1620, while in the treatment of some of the other exteriors reproductions of o?h----•r historic Structures in England are adapted. Among them the facada or the famous oM Harvard house in Stratford. The super structure is of steel, all floors throughout being re-enforced concrete. There will be 175 sleeping rooms, each room On the second floor being provided with a bath. The room and hall furnishings will be in that quiet taste wrhich bespeaks comfort and which comport with the fundamental idea of the biulders in constructing an inn, which will attain international fame for its comfort, safety, and convenience. •* —Advt.