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Country Place Hotel Fayetteville area residents and Austin architect & designer Clovis and Maryann Heimsath are just finishing a huge renovation of their 100 year old building that once served as their office, a restaurant and hotel. David stayed in this hotel on New Years Eve, circa 1978. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel After having lunch at Orsak's with Clovis and Maryann Heimsath, David and Linda went to see the progress in the Zapp Building. Here Linda and Clovis are standing in front of the hotel. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel A workman, Maryann, Linda and Clovis in front. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel This is the entry to the hotel. Stairs (just out of the picture to the right) lead upstairs to the eight guest rooms. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel A couple neighbors join the tour as Clovis shows Linda the main parlor. The restaurant dining room is through the French doors and the kitchen is down the hallway. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel This is the dining room. Clovis is pointing at the service area and kitchen. The door at the back of the room leads to the large meeting/banquet room. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel Not everything is in place yet, but this is the service area and kitchen around the corner. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel The Moravian Room, the hotel's meeting and banquet room. Clovis shows Linda a mechanical drawing of the lift elevator against the brick wall. The drawing will be framed and displayed near the elevator. A worker paints one of the doors that lead to a garden courtyard. Other doors (left) allow entry from the street. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel Clovis shows off the elevator lift that was used when the building served as a hospital. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel While the elevator is no longer functional, it has been preserved as a special feature of this historic building. A glass window has been provided so that we can see the counterbalance weights inside the wall. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel This is the view leaving the dining room, looking through the parlor, and back into the entry. We are headed upstairs to see the guestrooms. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel From the landing area at the top of the stairs, Linda look in at Clovis in the upstairs parlor. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel Clovis, in the upstairs parlor, shows off the rugs that will be placed in the guestrooms. The doors behind Clovis lead to the front balcony facing the precinct courthouse. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel On the balcony outside the upstairs parlor Clovis explains some of the refurbishment details with Linda. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel Linda and Clovis discuss mattresses in guestroom number one. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel Clovis explains to Linda that every room has been named. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel Almost all of the guestrooms have a 'window' mural painted on the wall depicting the place name of the room. This is Lone Oak. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel Clovis, an accomplished artist in his own right, painted the 'window' murals. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel This guest restroom, "Rek Hill" has one of the original bathtubs. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel This is the elevator works on the second floor. It remains above the toilet in one of the guest restrooms. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel Linda poses on the balcony at the rear of the hotel. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel Linda smiles up at the staircase from the hotel entrance as our tour ends. (08.29.03) |
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Country Place Hotel New life is being brought to the Zapp Building. (08.29.03) |
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November 02, 2006 Copyright 2003 David K. Stall | |
