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Title: A miracle in hotel building : being the story of the building of the new Canyon Hotel in Yellowstone Park / by J.H. Raftery
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Raftery, J. H. (John Henry), b. 1866 Yellowstone Park Hotel Company
Subjects: Canyon Hotel (Yellowstone National Park)
Publisher: (Yellowstone National Park?) : Yellowstone Park Hotel Co.
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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n motiveof decoration is the branch of the pine tree conventionalized. Thismotive, severe but characteristic, is carried out simply and with quietconsistency wherever the need of conservative and yet decorativerelief is apparent. It is apparent in the chair-backs, in the shadowytransom-lattice, in the pillar capitals, and even in the margins of thethousands of rugs which are being made exclusively for the newCanyon Hotel. The Kitchen. The size of the grand kitchen, its perfection of modern equip-ment, the estimated extent of its culinary efficiency, might make sub-ject-matter for a small volume in itself. It is one hundred and ninetyfeet long, fifty feet wide, with concrete floors, tiled wainscot andenamel walls, ceilings and pillars. Extending northward from underthe roof of the rest of the hotel, the grand kitchen has its own sky-lights and ventilation, as has the guests laundry, which is a furtherprojection of the same section of the structure. Beneath this main 14 NEW CANYON HOTEL
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YELLOWSTONE PARK 15 equipment of the new Canyon Hotel, in basement and sub-cellar, arethe kitchen and laundry for the employees, the boiler and engine roomibeing located in the lowest substructure, based in a great excavationinto the rocky side of the mountain. The Porte-cochere. The approach and entrance to the hotel are by a sloping, roofedarcade, which, reaching outward from the southern front of the lobbylike an outstretched arm of welcome, touches the widened roadwayof the grand tour with a great porte-cochere, where, in the summer-time, the trains of tourist-laden coaches will discharge their pas-sengers. From the landing platform, the guests approach the lobbyby a gradual, tiled incline, beneath which, and out of sight, is a similaringress, through which the luggage is to be wheeled to the office inrubber-tired push-carts. More than one hundred thousand dollars have been expendedfor the portable furnishment of the hotel, and before the season opensin mid-June, through snow-buri

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