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Metadata
Object ID |
1992.1.847 |
Title |
Sumpter. Hotel Sumpter on November 3, 1902. |
Description |
Sumpter. Hotel Sumpter on November 3, 1902. Brooks Hawley note: The 100 x 100 Sumpter Hotel was steam heated by a 60 h. p. boiler. It had 46 bedrooms, 12 with bath. A room was $3.00 American plan. The center of the hotel was a rotunda 40 x 50 feet surrounded by a balcony with offices opening onto the balcony. Something about 12 private boxes [boothes?] on the balcony. The parlor upstairs had a $600 Hardman-Peck piano. Really, the hotel was rather plain inside, no lavish columns, ceiling or gilt. Likely no one ever made any money with it. Dave Wilson, a building promoter of Spokane, built the Sumpter Hotel, as well as several other brick buildings in Sumpter. The brick work was finished in July 1901. The formal opening was Jan. 27, 1902 at a banquet attended by 200 dancing to Ford's orchestra. Note the date Nov. 3, 1902 [on photo at lower right]. That would be just the month before I was born, Dec. 22, 1902. |
Date |
1902, Nov. 3 |
Photographer |
Cowden, John W. (probably) |
Place |
Sumpter |
Photo Topic |
Towns |