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The main entrance to the hotel was on Manchester Street. Within was a lobby with an entrance into a hall. The hall offered access to private suites and at the end, swing doors led to a second lobby with access to the commercial room and dining room. The upper floor contained four further private suites and sixteen single bedrooms with bathrooms. 

The former Commercial Hotel building at 165-169 Main Street, Stawell, makes a significant to the architectural and visual amenity of the predominantly 19th and early 20th century commercial streetscape. Possibly built in 1926-27, the interwar building appears to be in good condition, and is situated on the site of a previous Commercial Hotel shown in historical photographs of 1867 and 1880.

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Craig's is one of the most historic hotels in Ballarat, and is significant as the site of the Royal Commission into the Eureka Stockade, a temporary Ballarat Town Hall, the scene of a huge ball with fugitive American Civil War fighters, the workplace of famed poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, resting place for the visiting Mark Twain, and birthplace of the Melbourne Racing Club, originators of the Caulfield Cup.

1888’s The Empire State: Its Industries and Trade provided a nice description of the history of the establishment:

Keokuk, Iowa Historians, in a Facebook page report "George Deming, owner of the Deming House Hotel, located at the corner of 2nd and Johnson Streets offered the "Reading Room" of his establishment for temporary use as an auxiliary hospital ward." 

They go on to say: "Research indicates that this was most likely the building that we know today as The Cellar, located at 29 South 2nd Street, which after the civil war, became the Union Hotel, ..."

The tower named Swych Utrechtnl, part of the Amsterdam city walls and defence system. It was part of the Kloveniersdoelen, the gathering and shooting place for the city militia/guard known as "kloveniers". Doelen means "targets" in Dutch. The companies of kloveniers were armed with an early type of musket then sometimes called in Dutch "klover", from the French couleuvrine, hence the name "kloveniers".

The third and final Driard Hotel opened in 1892 at the corner of View and Broad Streets. It was the grandest hotel in all of Victoria before the Empress was built. After being damaged in the great fire of 1910 David Spencer bought the Driard to become part of his huge Spencer`s Department Store complex that would later become Eaton`s.

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The site of today’s Historic Hotel Bethlehem changed as well, for the Moravians replaced the First House of Bethlehem with a general store in 1794. In fact, this business would gradually morph into a gorgeous inn over the next three decades, becoming the “Golden Eagle Hotel” at the beginning of the 1820s. That incarnation of the Historic Hotel Bethlehem continued to operate unhindered right up until 1919, when the building began temporarily housing convalescing soldiers upon their return from the European battlefields of World War I.

In 1856, William E. Ebbitt purchased Frenchman's Hotel from Smith, turned it into a boarding house, and renamed it Ebbitt House. During this time, the boarding house also took in guests from the Willard Hotel. On September 1, 1863, Ebbitt sold the boarding house to his son-in-law, Albert H. Craney. Exactly a year later, Craney sold the property to Caleb C. Willard, brother of Willard Hotel owner Henry A. Willard. Willard converted the boarding house into a hotel. The same year, Willard purchased Bushrod Reed's property as well.

The site of the Everett Building was initially part of the colonial farm owned by Dutch settler Cornelius Tiebout. Union Square was first laid out in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, expanded in 1832, and then made into a public park in 1839. The completion of the park led to the construction of mansions surrounding it, and the Everett House hotel, located on the north side of East 17th Street. was among one of several fashionable buildings completed around Union Square.

In the summer of 1870 a group of Hartford investors decided that Old Saybrook, would be an excellent location for developing a summer resort for wealthy Hartford residents.  They named their company the New Saybrook Company. The centerpiece of their resort would be the grand Fenwick Hall hotel.  318 lots surrounding the hotel were offered for sale.

Since its original construction in 1888, The Florence Hotel offered weary railway travelers and settlers a comfortable night's lodging. When it burned in 1913, The Florence was rebuilt as a major 106-room hostelry and was a longtime regional gathering place until it, too, was destroyed by fire in 1936. 

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The original Florence Hotel, built on this site in 1888, offered weary railway travelers and settlers a comfortable night’s lodging. When it burned in 1913, the Florence was rebuilt as a major 106-room hostelry and was a longtime regional gathering place until it, too, was destroyed by fire in 1936.

The Galt House was, in the early 19th century, the residence of Dr. W.C. Galt. The house was located at the corner of Second and Main Street.

In 1834, the first instance of the Galt House as a hotel was established and in 1835 was opened by Col. Ariss Throckmorton as a 60-room hotel on the northeast corner of Second and Main streets in Louisville. During the nineteenth century, The Galt House was acclaimed as Louisville's best hotel. Many noted people stayed at the original Galt House, including Jefferson Davis, Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

Gilsey House is a former eight-story 300-room hotel[1] located at 1200 Broadway at West 29th Street in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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During the American Civil War, Bermuda was central to Confederate blockade-running efforts due to its excellent harbors and proximity to Southern ports. The Globe Hotel served as the headquarters of Confederate purchasing agent Maj. Norman S. Walker throughout the war. Now the Bermuda National Trust Museum, it features a permanent exhibit called Rogues and Runners: Bermuda and the American Civil War. Among the items on display is a rare copy of the Great Seal of the Confederacy, which was smuggled through the island.

The Grand Beau-Rivage Interlaken has stood majestically between the emerald green waters of Lake Thun and Lake Brienz for 150 years, a timeless icon of Swiss hospitality and elegance. Its history is a fascinating journey through the 19th century to the present day, characterized by luxury, grace and incomparable beauty.

The Hôtel Louvre et Paix (a.k.a. Hôtel de la Marine) is a historic building in Marseille, France. Dedicated in 1863 as a luxury hotel, it was used by the Kriegsmarine during World War II. It now houses city administration offices and a C&A store.

In Paris they had stayed at the Grand Hôtel du Louvre, a “huge, palatial edifice” of seven hundred rooms on the Rue de Rivoli between the Louvre and the Palais Royal (Bædeker 1872, 4).

SLC to Jane Lampton Clemens and Family, 12 July 1867, Marseille, France (UCCL 00140), n. 1.

The Grand Hotel Hungaria (Hungária Nagyszálló) designed in Neo-Renaissance style opened its doors in 1871. The nearly 300-room edifice was Budapest’s first five-storey building, as well as its first luxury hotel in the modern sense, which had an elevator and a telegraph, but a luxury restaurant, a ticket office of the Hungarian Railways (MÁV) and a bank branch also operated in it.

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Grand Hotel's front porch is the longest in the world at some 660 feet in length, overlooking a vast Tea Garden "Grand Hotel MI From Lake" by Dehk - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Hotel_MI_From_Lake.jpg#/m…