£4,400,000 HOTEL.
A thirty-two storey hotel, costing £4,400,000, is to replace the Congress of Chicago, one of America’s best known hotels. The hotel will bo the largest in the world, will contain 3000 rooms, and will be constructed in units. The first unit, costing £1,000,000, will be known as the "bachelors’ ” hotel and will have 800 rooms, a gym. nasium, tank, Turkish and Russian baths, running track, squash courts, billiard room and grill. A banquet and convention hall, seating 2000 persons, will be the main feature of the second unit, also to cost £1,000,000. It will contain 700 rooms.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3599, 3 April 1924, Page 9
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99£4,400,000 HOTEL. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3599, 3 April 1924, Page 9
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