The emergence of the American hotel: Early standardisation and domestic origin.
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1700 - Colonial Period
1722 - Delware House
1783 - Tavern Inn
1809 - Boston Exchange Coffee House and Hotel
1825/1832 - Philadelphia Arcade and Office Building
1901 - Statler Hotel
Standard American house: The home is devided into two separate parts, each of which served multi purpose.
The devision of the domestic space into more specific spaces on multiple levels started to change the domestic roles within a single family.
The first inns and taverns were mostly transformed standard houses of the time.
The Exchange Coffe House and Hotel shows the basic spatial origin of the early American hotel: the dissagregation of the private household. Individual bedchambers were placed on the upper floors, shared public spaces on the first and second floor.
Gridlike arrangement of rooms and cellularity emerge in office architecture in the early nineteenth century.
The Statler Hotel shows long double loaded corridors, a room layout that had become standard in large hotels by the early twentieth century.
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