A miracle in hotel building : being the story of the building of the new Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park / by Raftery . 10 NEW CANYON HOTEL. YELLOWSTONEPARK 11 To eliminate the superfluous, because unused public apartmentsof the conventional tourist hotel, prompted the builders of the NewCanyon to combine the beauty, the convenience, the utility, theattractiveness of them all into one great common-room. The com-bined allurement and practicality of the winter-gardens of the famousspas of Europe, were kept in mind; the peacock walks of NewYorks most fashionable hostelries, the need of a gre
A miracle in hotel building : being the story of the building of the new Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park / by Raftery . 10 NEW CANYON HOTEL. YELLOWSTONEPARK 11 To eliminate the superfluous, because unused public apartmentsof the conventional tourist hotel, prompted the builders of the NewCanyon to combine the beauty, the convenience, the utility, theattractiveness of them all into one great common-room. The com-bined allurement and practicality of the winter-gardens of the famousspas of Europe, were kept in mind; the peacock walks of NewYorks most fashionable hostelries, the need of a great dancing-floor,a convention-hall, a spacious concert-room, recesses for writing, read-ing, smoking, reviewing the pageant—all of these usually scattered•essentials of a modern tourist-hotel were combined in The Lounge,the salient feature of the new Canyon Hotel and one of the most re-markable apartments in the world. The Lounge. This great room is two hundred feet long and one hundred feetwide, its great floor of polished oak and its walls and ceiling of finelyifinished red birch. Except for the massive alternating pillars thatsustai
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