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Central Hotel       - demolished now but still standing in the period we are modelling
                                        see below also for photos of Hotel Switzerland and the Armbruster Hotel

Clicking on the description of the drawings will download two page PowerPoint files with HO-scale drawings of the S and E sides of the building (for printing) and the photographs used as the sources for the drawing.   If you don't have PowerPoint, you can download a PowerPoint viewer here.  The evidence is strong for the S side but we still need photos of the E side.  We're not planning to model the west side (and the north side abuts the Hotel Switzerland). We are going to compress this building for modelling to fit on the layout.

The page size of the PowerPoint files is smaller than the drawings and you will have to move the drawings around and print them in several parts for HO scale.

    
                                         south side                                                                                       east side

See the photos below for more detail of the Central Hotel:
   #108: 19th c.        #112: 1900s           #117: 1900s        #332: 1930        #333: 19th c.      #335: 1900s
             

    #337: 1900s          #338: 1900s        #340: 1940s          #341: 1900s         #342:  19th c.
       

   #399J: 1900s        #399K: 19th c.        #407: 1909        
      

See the photos below for more detail of Hotel Switzerland (and the Armbruster Hotel):
   #008: 1900s            #110: 1900s          #307: 1940s          #312: 1996           #317: 2002     
       

     #321: 2002        #322: 2002        #324: 2002            #325: 2002            #329: 2002    
       

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Last modified: January 2018