Boston illustrated; . Hotel Brunswick. containing .350 rooms. It was built m 1874, and cost nearly $1,000,000. It issumptuously adorned and furnished inside, having two large dinmg-halls withmarble floors and Pompeian walls, and a rich and costly mediieval Brunswick is kept on the American plan. The Hotel Vendome is also an elegant structure, occupying an advantageousposition on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street. Theavenue front is built of white Tuckahoe marble, and the Dartmouth Street frontof Italian marble. The building, including basement and Mansard roof,
Boston illustrated; . Hotel Brunswick. containing .350 rooms. It was built m 1874, and cost nearly $1,000,000. It issumptuously adorned and furnished inside, having two large dinmg-halls withmarble floors and Pompeian walls, and a rich and costly mediieval Brunswick is kept on the American plan. The Hotel Vendome is also an elegant structure, occupying an advantageousposition on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street. Theavenue front is built of white Tuckahoe marble, and the Dartmouth Street frontof Italian marble. The building, including basement and Mansard roof, iseight stories high, and contains three hundred and sixty rooms. The plumbingof the house combines every recent improvement in workmanship and ventila-tion, and no open basins are placed in sleeping-chambers. The partition-walU5 BOSTON BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 67 are all made of incombustible material ; and the whole structure is practicallyfire-proof. The main floor contains, besides its larger public rooms, suites ofreception-parlors, tear-rooms, and several small private dining-rooms, decoratedwith artistic effect, and furnished in a luxurious manner. There are two pas-senger elevators in the house, one run by steam and the other by water ; be-sides a lift for baggage. The main entrance is on Commonwealth Avenue,with the ladies entrance on Dartmouth Street. The house is partly lighted byelectric light. The quaiter to the west of Arluigtou Street and north of Boylston Streetcontains many interestuig specimens of domestic architecture, in the wide vari-ety of styles for wliich Boston is so famous. The predominant styles are theNew (ireek, the French Renaissance, and the English Gotliic. In all this re-gion there are very few shops or stores of any kind. There are, however, sev-eral large apartment-hotels conducted on th
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