London Hotels in 1900: Claridge's

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of London's finest hotels at the turn of the twentieth century in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this look at Claridge's Hotel:

Old Claridge's has been pulled down and rebuilt, so that practically it is a new hotel.

It is a building of nine stories, with an exterior of red brick and dressings of Mansfield stone.

The whole of the floors, partitions, and roof are of fire-resisting materials - a circumstance sufficiently reassuring to visitors of a nervous disposition.

Upon all the floors up to and including the fifth, are rooms arranged in suites, each provided with its own entrance door, internal lobby, and that modern essential - a bathroom.

These suites can be taken for the London season, the responsibilities incidental to the hiring of a furnished house being thus agreeably avoided.

On each floor of the living-rooms is a private dining apartment, in Georgian style of upholstery and decoration, set apart for those who prefer to entertain their friends away from the glare of publicity.

The Royal suite of rooms is very striking with its Chippendale drawing-room, "Adams" sitting-room, and air of solid and sumptuous comfort.

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