WAUPACA POST

February 22, 1906

 

GRAND VIEW IMPROVEMENTS

 

            If the Grand View company can sell sufficient stock, it will make some splendid improvements in its main building at the Chain o’ Lakes this spring.  It is proposed to build an addition, 40 by 40 feet, two stories in height, on the end of the main building next to the annex, to be used as an office and from which a stairway will lead to the upper floor.  The present office will be made the ordinary, and what is now the ordinary will be made a part of the regular dining room, the partitions being taken out.  This will give the hotel a main dining room which will seat 128 people and an ordinary which will seat 32, a total capacity of 160.  A fifteen foot porch will extend across the end of the new part, and on the side the thirteen foot porch will be extended to meet it.

            Upstairs, in the new part, will be a ladies parlor, twenty feet square, four bed rooms and two bath rooms.  The kitchen will also be raised, and, with the upper part of the commissary building which was erected last year, twenty more guest rooms will be made available.  A balcony, 40 by 15 feet, will be a pleasant feature, on the second floor, and a tower will be built upon one corner.

            The improvements are expected to cost about $5,000, and it is the intention of the company to sell that amount of stock. The company is incorporated for $35,000.  $18,500 of which has been issued; the balance, according to the by-laws of the company, can only be sold at par for the purposes of improvement.  Business last year at the Grand View was larger than ever before in the history of the house and prospects are good for the coming season.  Last year, besides paying expenses, improvements costing $2,000 were made.