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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1937
Page
13
Washington sees a revival of construction activity in 1936 37 with the Hotel Washington as the centerpiece. Major offices move dates span from the Bailey building to Jeffrey estate renovations and the Lean Trust Building housing Baldrige Bailey law offices as firms seek upgraded spaces amid a wave of modernization and new occupancy.
A hotel development triggers the removal of the Bailey building. The Federal Home Loan and Credit association bought and renovated the nearby property as Gamble store briefly occupied a vacated South Marion room. Walter Rukgaber transformed a north square building into a large modern hardware store prompting tenants to relocate. Some square second floor rooms are being remodeled into apartments. St Paul’s Evangelical church will undergo extensive remodeling during the off season, part of a broader improvement wave tied to the hotel project.
The Washington hotel features axminster carpet with deep pile and green and red mottling. Ralph Scott of Scott Furniture says 72000 square feet cover hotel floors, supplied by Chittenden & Eastman of Burlington and made at Saxonville New York, laid by Orville Harden and James Schmoeller.
Mrs. Harry Sowden and assistants produced all window curtains for 36 hotel rooms plus lobby at the Hotel Washington. They cut the fabric themselves using 450 yards of Osnaburg cloth for rooms and monk's cloth for the lobby, with matching dresser scarfs completing the look.
Manager Sowden relied on the Scott Furniture company of Washington for hotel furnishings including 406 chairs for rooms and lobby plus straight chairs dressers desks grip stands costumes mirrors floor lamps and window shades. Scott also supplied heavy sponge rubber tread for the stairway from second floor to the lobby. The attractive furniture suggests Sowden and Scott exercised refined judgment and taste through many hours of work.
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