THE NELSON HOTEL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 100, 1 May 1867, Page 2

THE NELSON HOTEL.

Tlie erection of any building in this city, having the slightest pretensions to architectural symmetry, or which offers any variation from the ordinary monotonous type of dwelling houses, so generally adopted in the" colonies, must ever be a subject of legitimate congratulation. If, however, seldom falls to our lot to notice the completion of a structure of such pretensions as the new hotel just erected by Mr. Charles M'Gee, "at the corner of Bridge aad Collingwood streets, on the site of his former hotel, destroyed by the great fire which took place in that quarter of the city last August. The Nelson Hotel has a frontage of no less than 124 feet to Colling wood-street, aud from this fact some idea may be formed of the extensive scale on which the buildiug has been planned. The lower story is occupied by a corridor opening on to a public bar, very tastefully fitted up, with bar parlour, a diuingroom, 24 feet 2 in. long, and 14 feet 2 in. wide, communicating with a smaller room, aud a family parlour, all of very comfortable proportions. A separate entrance admits to the private bar, which is, by the bye, a novelty iv hotel arrangements in this city, and to a handsome room, 29 feet 6 inches long by 19 feet wide, destined either for a billiard or commercial room. On the opposite side of the corridor, lie several smaller rooms, for the accommodation of private parties, with the kitchen, which is of very goodly dimensions, and the offices. The upper story is approached by a double flight of stairs of good width, and contains the Masonic Hall, 29 feet 6 inches long by 19 feet wide, with coved ceiling, a room admirably adapted ior public meetings, dinners, &c, aud having the indispensible Masonic appendages of an anteroom aud lobby, aud 11 good sized bedrooms. We may add that the architect (Mr. Henry) has managed very skilfully to accommodate the varied requirements of the hotel to the rather inconvenient nature of the site, and the faqade presented by the building on the Collingwood-street side is really imposing in character, and entitled to be considered one of the most striking architectural features in this city. The hotel has been finished throughout in the most complete manner and appropriately furnished, and presents a very substantial specimen of domestic comfort, combined with elegance and constructive propriety. The hotel was, we understand, opened yesterday ; and we trust that Mr. M'Gee will lone receive that patronage to which he is so justly entitled from his fellow-citizens, if only as having added to our somewhat meagre stock of architectural lious, not to mention the plucky mauner in which, after an interval of only a very few months, he has replaced so substantially the former building, which had not been erected a year, when it fell a victim to the devouring element. We have already referred to the skill displayed by Mr. Henry, the architect of the hotel ; and our uotice would be incomplete did we omit to mention the satisfactory manner iv which Mr. John Scott, the builder, has fulfilled his part in the undertaking.