THE WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

February 23, 1906

 

GRAND VIEW HOTEL

 

Capacity to be largely Increased

Improvements Costing $5,000, will be Made Before June 1^st.

 

            Irving P. Lord, president of the Grand View Hotel Co., is authority for the state-ment that in all probability the Grand View Hotel will receive many improvements prior to June first.  Mr. Lord has had plans drawn by Wm. Waters of Oshkosh, architect, for a new addition to be located on the east end of the hotel proper, adjoining the dining room.  This addition will be 40 feet square and two and one half stories high, and of an imposing appearance. The front floor will face what is known as the “Annex”.  The entire first floor will be used as an office and lobby.  A veranda, with a gallery covering the whole of it, will be built 15 feet wide and 40 feet long, on the east, while the veranda on the north facing the lake will be 13 feet wide, the same width and a continuation of the present veranda on the Grand View proper.  On the second floor will be a ladies’ reception room 18 feet square, and several bedrooms.  By building this addition, sixteen new bedrooms on the second floor of the dormitory and commissary building will be brought into service for the use of guests.  The dining room which now seats 96 people, thus affording a seating capacity of 160 people.  In case of necessity about 25 more people can be seated, thus giving a total seating capacity at meal times of nearly 200 persons.

            Mr. Lord says that the kitchen, which is only one story at present, will be raised to two stories and eight bedrooms for the help fitted up in the second story.

            All of these improvements are very pleasant for the REPUBLICAN to comment upon, and it is hoped that they will be carried out as planned.

            The Grand View property is owned by a stock company known as the Grand View Hotel Co., which is capitalized for $35,000 and which has about $18,500 of the capital stock subscribed, paid in and issued.  In addition to Mr. Irving P. Lord, there is interested in the corporation Wallace H. Lord, A. M. Penney and P. M. Olfson of this city and Mr. J. C. Lewis of Antigo.

            It is the intention of the directors to sell $5,000 of the treasury stock and use the proceeds thereof for these new improvements.  It is hoped that our businessmen will see the necessity of giving substantial encouragement to an enterprise of this kind and do their respective parts toward carrying out the end in view. Business in Waupaca during the summer months is very largely dependent upon the summer guests who come here, and everything that goes to build up the Grand View Hotel and the land around the “Chain o’ Lakes” is of the utmost importance to the city of Waupaca as a whole.  There has been too much apathy in these matters evinced by Waupaca businessmen heretofore, but they must awake to the fact that enterprises of this kind must receive the co-operation of all, and not be allowed to rest upon the shoulders of one or two public spirited citizens.