Beverly Shores Hotel, 1944 - Beverly Shores, Indiana : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Beverly Shores Hotel, 1944 - Beverly Shores, Indiana / Shook Photos
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| 説明 | BEVERLY SHORES HOTELBEVERLY SHORE, IND.Date: 1944Source Type: PostcardPublisher, Printer, Photographer: Curt TeichPostmark: NoneCollection: Steven R. ShookRemark: This image represents the east elevation of the Beverly Shores Hotel, which was located on the northwest corner of Broadway and Jones Avenue. The hotel consisted of 32 rooms, was designed by architect Elmer William Marx, and built by Beverly Shores Construction Company. The hotel opened in June 1934 and was converted into the Beverly Shores Rest Home in March 1952. Acquired by the National Park Service, the structure was destroyed by fire in October 1974.Two documents contained in the files of the Federal Writers' Project, the first prepared by Henrietta Graubman and the second by Archie Koritz, provide the following detailed description of this hotel:BEVERLY SHORES HOTELThe Beverly Shore hotel is located on Broadway, Beverly Shores, Indiana. It is a very high class hotel, modernistic in style, and open the year round. It is a large brick building and was designed by Leo W. Post.The building is ninety feet wide and sixty-five feet deep, has three wings of thirty feet, and each made in the letter U. By forming the letter U, every room is an outside room. The first floor has a thirty by forty dining room, thirty by twenty-four kitchen and the south wing in the center space, consists of the check room, lobby, clerk's office, manager's office and entrance to rear of building.The north wing consists of the ladies lounging room fourteen by thirty, with ladies rest room and five sleeping rooms. Also a linen closet. On the second floor there are eighteen sleeping rooms and a large sitting porch, all furnished in the best modernistic furniture. The third floor has a solarium, the roof is made into a roof deck with seating capacity to service people on the roof. There is a large basement, which has two store rooms, a boiler room and a large recreation room. The Beverly Shores hotel is owned and operated by the Robert Bartlett Realty Company. The hotel is strategically located, close to the golf course and within walking distance of the beach.The hotel was built to accommodate the increasing number of golfers, bathers, and hikers who come to Beverly Shores for rest and recreation. Here you have metropolitan hotel comforts and conveniences in the duneland country. The rooms are large, light and airy, equipped with modern all-steel furniture. And adjoining the hotel, is the Beverly Shore Botanical Garden with its wide variety of flora natural to the dunes region. Here arctic and tropical plants can be found growing within a few yards of each other - one of the few places in the world where such rare combinations are to be seen in their natural environment.Hotel is of Florentine architecture.BEVERLY SHORES INNLocated at Beverly Shores, this hotel is of Florentine architectural design, modern throughout with twenty-three outside rooms, each furnished with modern all steel furniture. The landscaping was done by Mrs. Louise Van Hees of Chicago. To the rear of the Inn are the Botanical Gardens. The lobby is furnished in green leather furniture, with an attractive and well equipped office. There is an attractive lounge for women. Card tables and writing desks are for the use of guests.The dining room carries out the Italian influence, being done in black and red, a color scheme which in the decoration of the China, has been employed.Yellow and rose are the predominating colors in the different rooms.This hotel was built by W. Post, contractor of Beverly Shores for the Bartlett Realty Company in 1934. The exterior is built of brick, 2 stories, with a roof garden entirely enclosed with screens.Rates are:European planDaily$2.00-$3.50 single$3.00-$5.00 doubleWeekly$12.00-$18.00 single$16.00-$30.00 doubleFlorentine dining room; excellent food and service at reasonable prices.4/23/36Source:Federal Writers’ Program, Works Progress Administration. 1936-1942. Porter County, Indiana. Indiana Writers’ Program, Microfilm Reel No. 20, Folder 510. Terre Haute, Indiana: Indiana State University, Cunningham Memorial Library. 1,193 p. [see pp. 605-606]Copyright 2009. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook. |
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