Hotel LaFontaine

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Hotel LaFontaine
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Hotel LaFontaine, May 2012
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Location200 W. State St., Huntington, Indiana
Coordinates 40°52′52″N85°29′42″W / 40.88111°N 85.49500°W / 40.88111; -85.49500
Arealess than one acre
Built1925 (1925)
ArchitectStevens, Robert W.
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No. 84001056 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 9, 1984

Hotel LaFontaine is a historic hotel building located at Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana. It was built in 1925, and consists of a six-story central pavilion with five-story flanking wings. It is of steel frame and hollow-tile construction and sheathed in brick. The building is in the Colonial Revival style. The lobby is designed to resemble a Spanish courtyard and the basement houses an Egyptian inspired swimming pool that opened in 1927. The hotel is named for Francis La Fontaine. It housed a hotel until 1974. [2] :2–3

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] It is located in the Huntington Courthouse Square Historic District.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved April 1, 2016.Note: This includes Jean Gernand (September 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Hotel LaFontaine" (PDF). Retrieved April 1, 2016. and Accompanying photographs.