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PLANS BI6 NEW $80,000 HOTELjpes to Start Work on New Five Story Structure during the Coming Autumn. To be Modern in Every Particular.: Provided the present plans do notl miscarry, the season of 1917 will see I Gettysburg with another hotel fully ; equipped to care for the best class of j tourist trade. Kenderton S. Lynch, of the Lincoln Way, has secured an op-f tion on the building he noW occupies from its owner, Amos Oollins, and i plans to erect in its stead a five story . building at a cost said to be $80,000.i Drawings of the proposed struc-lt;ture now adorn the walls of LincolnWay lobby. They were made by Henry t' E. de Hoff, an architect of Philadel-3 phia. It is planned to set the new f building back some distance from thepavement line, so that it will be in line5 with the Gettysburg National Bank,j1 adjoining it on the west. lr: The specifications call for an ex-e terior of Pompein brick and terra e cotta. In addition to a spacious lobby, t billiard room, roof garden and other public rooms, there are to be sixty n four bed rooms of which twenty eight e will have private baths. The roof gar-i- den is to be enclosed with glass and yj heated in the winter, thereby serving d as a sun parlor during the cold months. An elevator operated by ans'electric motor will convey guests to95, | the upper floors.?ij With the idea of economical operate tion during the winter months there r, i will be two heating plants, a main r, one to heat those parts of the house e| which it is thought will be used in the n; dull season and an auxiliary plant that s| may be started when the occasion re-I quires. It is Mr. Lynch’s intention to operate the new’ building entirely upon the European plan. His menu will include the so-called “club-meals” at v I prices of thirty, fifty, seventy fiveIand a dollar to augment the regular list of special dishes.Other features of the building are telephones in each room and filtered ice water for all of the sixty four bed rooms in addition to the customary hot and cold water spigots. An endeavor will be made to start work in November so the house may be ready for guests the early part of next summer.In speaking of the proposition, Mr. Lynch said, “We realize that this is quite an undertaking, and it seems like an enormous amount of money to put into a hotel here, under present conditions, but our experience since we have been operating the Lincoln Way makes us believe it is justified. The traveling men and battlefield tourists are demanding this ip', class of accommodation.“We have made practically all the improvements the present buildingfi-nee.r~t,ieidst;ol-ic.s-»yofn-rganvsthe-will stand. An attractive building operated in a first class manner will bring people here who do not now remain over night in Gettysburg. This applies especially to the traveling salesman; and rather than take trade from the hotels already here, we anticipate bringing additional people to the town by this expenditure.”
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Gettysburg Adams County News
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jul 08, 1916
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