WORLD’S LARGEST HOTEL

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1127, 15 June 1927, Page 6

WORLD’S LARGEST HOTEL

OPENED IN CHICAGO What is claimed tu he the-largest hotel in the world, the Stevens, has just been opened m Chicago. - Its cost was £0,200,C00. ft is '2'J stories high, sin I extended for a full block along Michigan Boulevard. it has 3001) outside rooms, and ■ 300 private baths ,with circulating: ice water in every room. There is a library of 23,000 volumes An Exhibition Hall covers 3d,000 square- feet . There are eight ballrooms, club rooms tor men and women, and a* theatre that seats KUO. A two-storev collonade Lie ruul provides extra lacilities lor dancing Besides many private rooms, there are lour commodious restaurants and a. lunch room. The main diningroom has a. seating capacity for -1000 and tlie banquet chamber contains 3000 chairs..

Sixty thousand by eh towels and dO,OOO linen face towels are included i.u the "equipment of the rooms. 'Ulie furniture is 'mostly in. (the style of l.ouis XV. and Louis XVI. 'There are .nine different designs, in walnut, mahogany, and maple. 'The ■j viis.liructi#>u ol the iurniture, Tor strength, comfort, -and beauty of design, is stated to represent a standard that has newer before been pitta ined in the United States.