The Andrews hotel, owned and operated by the Brunswick Investment Company, will open Sept. 4th. The building now being constructed at Fourth Street and Hennepin will go up six stories at first, but the foundations have been made for a 13-story building. It will be fireproof throughout. O.G.Gross is architect for the H.L. Stevens Company, contractors The main entrance of the, building is from Fourth street and the women’s entrance, from Hennepin Avenue. On the mezzanine floor and facing tho two street frontages are shop rooms. These
These shops will have large display windows, facing the streets and corridors of the hotel. Grill rooms, women ‘s parlors retiring rooms are part of the plans and a billiard room and Russian bathrooms are to be installed in the basement. The barber shops and baths will be under the management of A. W. Stark who directs such departments for the Plankington Hotel in old Milwaukee. There will be 200 rooms for guests at first, 175 of which are to be equipped with baths. The main lobby furnishings of the hotel have been designed after the style of the Louis IV.
-Minneapolis Tribune
May 28, 1911
A permit for the construction of six additional stories to the Andrews Hotel hotel, Fourth Street and Hennepin avenue, has been issued by the city building inspector. The addition will cost $210,000. Work is expected to begin March 1. The Andrews hotel is now six stories high.It originally cost $350,000. Foundations were put in to hold a 13-story building. The foundations are said to have cost $100,000 more than would have been necessary if there were no plans for making the budding higher. The additional floors will be arranged just the same as the other floors where there are rooms, F. E. Zonne said today. All of the floors in the Andrews are typical. The clerks have to remember only the makeup of one floor.
For instance, Room 715 will be just the same as Room 215. Each additional story will cost $40,000. The work is expected to take months. At its completion, the Andrews Hotel will take its place as one of the largest in the city. We shall build at least four stories and the likelihood is that all Of the six will be built,” said Mr. Zonno today. ‘ ‘This improvement been contemplated for some time. The work will begin on March 1st, if the financial matters have been satisfactorily arranged by that time.” Those interested in tho proposed new Nicollet Hotel say that the addition to the Andrews will have no effect in starting their new building. They say Minneapolis needs more hotel rooms. Don’t they?
-Minneapolis Tribune
December 12, 1915