Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 26, 1916, Page 38

2—E How the F The Blackstone hotel is shaped like . a huge “E,” with the main entrance There's a big, wide porch, reached after a walk through the tall sheltering maples. which break the rays of the hot sun in the summer and “head off” some of the cold in in the center. the winter time. Once through the tiled vestibule, the visitor finds himself in the entrance corridor, with a big roomy writing room on his right, while on the left there is a reception room large enough THE OMABA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER 26, 1918.° for half a dozen different séts of vis- itors to assemble without one party in- terfering with another one. But this first view of the interior does not give the impression of a hotel, It creates the impression of a magnificent private home—the home of a well-bred, wealthy man who has bad unlimited funds with which to furnish his palace in exquisite taste. There is no hotel officp in sight. There's a manager's private room down the corridor a little ways from the vestibule and in the room, as it there only momentarily, is a young lady. Residents of the hotel will pass on; if a stranger attempts to pass into the main lobby, quiet signal is given by some one, some where, and the stranger is very quickly and very po- litely given an opportunity of stating his business. If he really wants to find to hunt for it. four feet long. night. comfort and rest. ing room. room. the room that are open. there are the two private dining rooms, one ten feet by fourteen and the other fourteen by twenty-eight. These are for the many uses found in a family hotel for dining rooms of these sizes Each one has the same But the lobby is not like a Jong hall, with straight, severe, lines, similar to the hallway of an office building. Once past the writing room on the right| and the reception room on the left, the lobby broadens out into a great, hand- _some lounging room, twénty feet wide n part, and fifty feet—yes, fifty—wide n its major portien. hold a national convention in, almost, But not like a convention hall. filled with the things that make for It's a meeting place, _a talking place, a loafing place, if you please, for the residents of the hotel and for their friends. Go through those French doors |all go with the hotel service; they are Big enough to down at the north end of the loung- That's the -main dining It o forty feet wide and sixty feot long. There are just fifteen big light windows on the three sides of the office of the building, he will have And when he finds it, it is behind & pair of handsome French doors at the far end of the lounging room. This is all in keeping with the efforts of the management to remove from sight every evidence of hotel life and to create the |mpression of a quiet, luxurious home. Lobby and Elevators. And that main lobby. with, it is ten feet wide and forty- At the far end are the passenger elevators—two of them. They are not the usual “"apartment house” elevators of the kind calied “gutomatic,” but which make the resi- dents into elevator boys. regular elevators, with uniformed con- ductors. And they run all day and all The Blackstone Ball Room, Louls XIV Style of Decorations. light wholesomeness found in the main dining room ftself. | And just to the west of the dining rooms, close enough for good service, | far enough removed to prevent any odors, s the kitchen—a regular dream of a kitchen. On the darkest Decem- || ber day that Blackstone kitchen will be light. The description? None but || an expert hotel cook could describe it; could tell the use of the thousand- and-one things that are contained in ||if that kitchen. Come and see it for your- ||l self. You'll dreanr of it, it you do, The remaining half, the south hait, || of the main floor, (s given over to one- and two-room apartments, A One-Room House, I A oheroom apartment doesn't “sound” very large. But in the Black- stone, things are different. First, you have no need of a dining room. That stretches that one room into two. Sec- ondly, you do no cooking at the Black- |f| stone, and that makes three rooms of your one room. The Blackstone Is a hotel, not an apartment house. You Want a reception room, of course, but there are nothing finer, anywhere, than the party rooms and lounging jrooms of the Blackstone—and they A Glimpse at the Interior of the Cemtral Roof Garden, Which is Enclosed and Heated During the Winter Months. large windows. All day long, in the cold winter, the warm sun shines on this room, while in the summer the striped awnings and the seven open To begin private bathroom. And clothes closets? If there is any one thing the Blackstone people pride themselves upon, it is the closet serv- ice. Every room in the house has a closet—and many of them have: two and three closets, Nothing is in sight that is not wanted in sight. Put the boatjack in the closets. That's-where it belongs. Take Apartment number 106, for in- stance. It s a oneroom apartment on the first floor. There are four win- dows, Insuring light and air. Steam raaiation insures warmth in the win- ter. The tile bathroom has hot and cold water, and there is a big thermos jug which a house maid will keep filled with ice water all the year round. There are two closets—big closets, not little bandboxes. And there are two nooks, each with a convenient seat. The bed diseppears into a double- doored closet, and there is a beveled French-plate mirror in each of the | 3 5 - . : doors. Properly furnished and rein- for the use of the residents and there |\ = = forced by the hotel's dining room, 18 no extra chargesfor the service. So, i & reception room s not a necessity, |Ell;il’x&l;"rofizggon‘;%omatgmet;iduco;o:x: 'And the gre room has expanded into fences, two people can live on the fat our. A “living” room s a necessity, of the land in Apartment 106. however, and 40 18 & bedroom. But, in |stone singleroom apartment is a liv- Two-room apartments are made by the Blackstope, the one-room apart|ing room by day and a bedroom by adding a library or a sun room to the ment s furnished as a living room— |night. By this arrangement, and with singleroom homes. Suite 112113 is and the bed, when it is wanted, springs |the ald of the service furnished by the one of the latter kind. In addition to out of a bed-closet, or comes right out |hotel, the one-room apartment has now the living' room, there is the sun- of the wall. And when you are through |become so large that it furnishes five- room, a fine room ten feet by fourteen with it, it disappears again. A Black- |room accommodations. Blackstone res- feet, with red tile flooring and seven windows render the room cool an pleasant. The living room of this suite has a closet four feet deep and They are bed—not a folding-up bed—and the very neatest of white-tiled bathrooms. out beat it; it can’t be beaten. It is stone rooms. Spacious Rooms. . building for the owner acted on the The Main Dining Room of the Blackstone. buildings. idents do not need servants, since all maid's work and chamberwork is per- formed by hotel employes. This saves a maid's room—and the one-room apart- ment has been enlarged into six rooms. Hach apartment, whether of one, two or, six rooms, has its own And then posite course and made the rooms just as large as they could. Room 113 is twenty-one feet, seven inches long and twelve feet, five inches wide. Not all the rooms are that size: some ar arpetings for the Blackstone Hotel . Were Made Exclusively by the * igelow-Hartford Carpet Company The furnishing required 9,600 yards of the following well known fabrics: “HARTFORD-SAXONY” RUGS, BIGELOW LOWELL WILTON CARPET, BIGELOW AXMINSTER CARPET, LOWELL AXMINSTER CARPET BIGELOW-HARTFORD FLOOR COVERINGS, on account of quality, designs and colorings, have been recog- \nized as the leading HOTEL CARPETS for almost a century. For standing the hardest wear for the longest period of time, and retaining in the fullest measure their original beauty, they stand supreme. Over 300 of the leading hotels in the United States are satisfied tisers of BIGELOW-HARTFORD CARPETS, and have given them their unqualified endorsement for superiority. The floor covering fabrics that will stand the test of hard service in public buildings and conveyances will readily commend themselves to the housekeeper for home use. All first-class dealers sell “BIGELOW- HARTFORD” fabries. BIGELOW-HARTFORD CARPET CO. ESTABLISHED 1825, Chicago Office: 14 E. Jackson Boulevard. 770 Mission Street. Portland Office: 107 Stark Street. New York Office: 25 Madison Avenue. o San Francisco Office: Boston Office: 69 Summer Street. Kansas C%ty Office: 25 E. 12th St. . . ten, feet long. There s a disappearing And there are French doors leading into the sun-room. You can’t These Blackstone hotel rooms are not like other rooms. Those who have been trained, by the modern apart- ment house, to judge other rooms by the apartment measure, will be very much surprised when they see the size and convenience of the Black- The Bankers Realty Investment company, in designing this beautiful belief that the modern city man s growing weary of the little box-like roomg into which the builders' of apartment houses are dividing their Instead of attempting to make their rooms as small as possible, the Blackstone builders took the op- smaller; but some are larger, too: The d | second, third and fourth floors have identical arangements and very large- ly, the one- and two-room apartments are confined to these floors. However, there are some two or three three- room suites on each of these floors while on the fifth, sixth and seventh floors, which are identical with one another and contain the larger suites, there are a few of the smaller apart- ments, And these upper floors—the fifth, sixth and seventh—certainly contain “some” suites. Here is one with five rooms, six closets, a bath,.a fire-place and mantel, private hall, fifteen win- dows. With the hotel service, which furnishes the dining room, kitchen, re- ception rooms, ball rooms, roof gar- dens, .billard parlor, maids, servants, telephones, etc., could one use more space? Yes. Well, in that case, on the same floor there is a suite of six rooms, including a sun toom. Want still more space? Yes. Then take this seven-room suite consisting of living room, library, sun-room, four bed rooms, bath room, and all sorts of closets. But come up one story higher—up on the eighth floor. That's where are the three roof gardens, the big banquet and dancing rooms, the party rooms, lounging rooms, soda fountain, and things of that kind—and the finest view in all Omaha. The eighth story of the Blackstone s three stories higher than the tallest office building down in town, The Blackstone is on- top of a high hill, you know. Playground On Top. The eighth floor is a play-ground of the Blackstone. Perhaps, if you are a resident of the hotel, you have -a single room, or a two-room apartment. If that be the case, here is where you will take your recreation. When you wish to sleep, or to get off by your- self, as sometimes you will, you will remain in your rooms. But when you want to meet your friends, when you crave soclety, when you want to see Dpeople, when you want to have a good time, you will take one of the eleva- tors and run up to the eighth floor. It it's winter, the glass sides will be closed, the steam will be turned on, the flowers will be blooming and you can stand in a warm, comfortable cor- ner and look out over the snow-buried world. You can see far beyond Flor- ence to the north, and the bluffs of the east side of the Missouri are in sight for nearly forty miles. Child’s Point, Sarpy county, and the country to the south is all within your view. West- ward, the plains of Nebraska, snow- covered, will stretch as far as you can see. J But you need not care. The Black- stone is a city within itself. You can eat, drink and be merry; you can dance, play and enjoy yourself, For the summer, the Blackstone roof gardens are the coolest places in Omaha. There are three of the gar- dens. All have the pergola effect, and all are covered with vines and flowers. Each of the three is forty feet wide, facing the east. The north and south gardens are each fifty feet long, while the center garden is thirty feet long. The big ball room—which is turned into a banquet hall, seating 250 people upon occasions—is on this top floor. It {8 undoubtedly the finest ball room (Continued on Page 4—B.) loors of the Blackstone Were Planned for Family Use e