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Excerpt from The Charms of Kankakee The Hotel Rrvervrew was erected by the Rrvervrew Hotel Company at a cost of about It 1s of the Rustre Vrlla style of archrtecture, 135 x 140 feet on the ground, four storres hrgh, and a hrgh granrte basement It rs furnrshed ln exqursrte taste and lrghted and watered m the most 1m proved methods, contarns 80 guest chambers and can accommodate about zoo people at a trme From rts mrde, cool gallerres - for rts broad prazzas face the sweeprng landscape at all pomts of the compass - are vrsrble all the scenrc beautres of the place for many mrles away It rs beautrful ln desrgn and finrsh, wrth superb entrance, carrrage portrere and broad balconres and verandas look mg ln all drrectrons All the rooms are outsrde rooms, every room contarns a closet, and all rooms are corr nectrng, so that a famrly may occupy as many or as few rooms en surte as they may desrre Many rooms contarn fire - places, and the whole house 1s heated by steam - an entrrely new devrec ln summer-resort hotels, but made essentral ln Northern waterrng-places by the sometrmes cool nrghts and mornrngs There are several gen eral bath-rooms, and many surtes have separate baths wrth hot and cold water In fact, the house has every beauty and convenience that modern 1nventron and money can supply as completely as any hotel ln New York or Ch cago There are row-boats and steam yachts on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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