San Francisco Call, Volume 102, Number 22, 22 June 1907 — Plans of Oakland's Magnificent $2,000,000 Caravansry Are Received and Contracts Let for Excavating for the Foundations [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Plans of Oakland's Magnificent $2,000,000 Caravansry Are Received and Contracts Let for Excavating for the Foundations

OAKLAND, June 21.— Plans have arrived showing the exterior of new hotel which will be erected on the block bounded by Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Harrison and Alice streets by the Oakland hotel company which will spend about $2,000,000 on the structure and site. The drawings show a mammoth building, designed on the most modern lines. The architects is- H. J. Hardenbergh of. New York City, who is reputed to be the leadlng hotel designer of the United States. The accompanying view presents the building as it will be seen from the corner of Harrison .and Thirteenth streets. In that street and also in Fourteenth large main entrances will be installed. The Thirteenth street entrance will be for pedestrians and general business, and ;the Fourteenth street approach is to be a recessed arcade for carriages and automobiles. The first floor provides for wide foyers

and corridors, a splendid court in colonnades, a cafe, grand dining . room. : ladies' grill, breakfast room, ballroom with movable stage, promenade lobby, reading and .reception rooms, offices, and on the Thirteenth street side six stores. The mezzanine floor and foyers on the flrst floor will have sample rooms for. traveling salesmen, banquet room, ladies' parlor and smoking room. The five upper floors of the building are to be divided up into guests' rooms, the.main feature of which is that they are to be all slngle rooms facing on the streets or courts, and will have bathrooms between the rooms and will be so arranged that the rooms can be; used as suites or single. All the bathrooms will face on the streets or courts and are known as outside bathrooms, giving them plenty of light and sun, air and ventilation, the latest and most modern method and location of bathrooms in hotels. These bathrooms will be fited up with all the lalest

plumbing fixtures, tiled floors and walls. In the basement of the building will be billiard room, barber shops, children's dining rooms, kitchens, machinery, room, laundries, refrigerating rooms, baggage room and other necessities. There will be six high speed elevators for use of the guests, as well as elevators for the servants and the baggage The interior finish, decorations and the furnishings will be in harmony with the magnificence of the general architectural plan. Contracts for excavation have been let. Walter J. Mathews of this city is the consulting and supervising architect. The stock holders are Oakland bankers, businessmen and others, representing all classes. The directors of. the. company are W. W. Garthwaite, Edson F. Adams, W. G. Palmanteer. W. G. Henshaw, P. E. Bowles, Thomas Prather, D. Edward Collins. H. C. Capwell and J. C. McMullen.

OAKLAND'S MAGNIFICENT $2,000,000 HOTEL, WHICH WILL BK ERECTED AT ONCE ON THE BLOCK BOUNDED BY THIRTEENTH, FOURTEENTH, HARRISON AND ALICE STREETS, AND WHICH WILL BE ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST PALATIAL CARAVANSARIES IN AMERICA.