Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — Million-Dollar Hotel Burns. [ARTICLE]

Million-Dollar Hotel Burns.

Jefferson hotel at Richmond, Va., one of the finest establishments of the kind in the country, which was erected and lavishly furnished by the late Louis Ginter at a cost of over $1,000,00Q, was burned Saturday. Several persons were hurt by falling downstairs. In the hotel were many valuable works of • art, including Valentine’s marble statue of Thomas Jefferson, which stood in the Franklin street court. The structure covered half a block in the ußra-fashionable part of the city and was built of buff brick on a granite foundation.