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provided the building's external cladding. With construction wrapping up by early 1910, Calhoun's building was the first new building completed in the Denny
Regrade neighborhood. Despite the building's completion, the hotel itself didn't open until October 1910 under lease to Lillie B. Wisner,
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on the building's mezzanine level. In 2014 the current owners undertook an entire restoration and conversion of the building back into a hotel, though keeping the
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In 1909 Calhoun commissioned noted local architect W.P. White to design an 8-story, $ 150,000 hotel for his property at the
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