Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — Lafayette to Have Big New Hotel. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette to Have Big New Hotel.

William A. Holt, manager of the Denison Hotel, will leave Indianapolis the latter part of the summer to (open a hot- 1 of his own at Lafayette. The Tippecanoe Hotel and Realty Company has been organized with Mr. Holt at its head, and a new :.ine-story hotel with 207 rooms will be built there. Mr. Holt began, the hotel business at the old Bates House, now the Claypool Hotel, as a Check boy in He later became manager of the 1 rand Hotel, when Thomas Taggart was at [The head of that institution, snd sires years ago lie went to : the Renisen as manager after Air. Tag • art had taken over that place. Associated with Mr. Holt in the n w business are Clinton B. Marshall, C. M. Henderson, James Bingham and others. In addition to the r * canoe Hotel and Realty Com--any, Holt Hotel Company also has been formed. The new Lafayette structure will be a modern hotel uildiiig. including a ballroom, a roof garden, a college inn, case arid offiier features.—lndianapolis Star.