More plans for hotel project in this city, in which a number of the city’s wealthiest and most prominent business men are said to be interested, were taken up here this week by committees appointed from various civic bodies.
The committee is preparing to finance the project before selecting the site this time, and have been looking in a 100-room hotel recently completed at Suffolk, Va., and financed by the Hockenbury system. The Hockenberry system will make a survey of the local hotel needs, and the committee will set out to finance a hotel of 75 to 100 rooms.
Plans for a five-story hotel have been submitted by B.F. Mitchell, Norfolk architect, and these will be looked into at the meeting of the Committee late this week. C.R. Pugh, close friend of E.F. Aydlett, owner of the Southern Hotel, is chairman of the present hotel committee, which consists of the following members from the various civic organizations:
Mrs. J.G. Fearing, Mrs. A.B. Houtz and Mrs. Ethel Lamb, Woman’s Club; C.R. Pugh, M.G. Morrisette, and G.R. Little of Kiwanis Club; Dr. S.H. Templeman, J. Wesley Foreman and C.W. Gaither, Chamber of Commerce; and J.C. Sawyer, T.T. Turner and O.F. Gilbert, Merchants Bureau.
It is believed that the time is ripe to launch a hotel project and the local business men are generally strong for a new Hostelry.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, July 17, 1925
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