This has always been one of our most important public houses; and being in the centre of the wholesale dry-goods and hardware trade-contiguous to the principal market-houses-to the Merchants’ Exchange and Library Rooms, as well as to the Post-office, it has always been a favorite house with a large share of country merchants, from Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Virginia, and persons on business from other quarters.  It has recently undergone an extensive rebuilding, and entire re-modeling, inside, as well as in its external appearance, enlarging itself to double its former front, and greatly increasing its depth.

        As the result of these improvements and additions, it is now one of the most spacious of our city hotels, presenting an imposing front of ninety-four feet extent, with a depth of one hundred feet.  It is five stories high, besides the usual basement.

        The building is well lighted and admirably ventilated; with a fine parlor and drawing room for ladies and one hundred and four lodging apartments of ample size.  The façade of the hotel is ornamented with two porticoes, and galleries pass round each side of the area, in the rear, of every story of the house.

This Hotel was established in 1824, by William Dennison, Sen., who has since connected his son, E. B. Dennison, in the enterprise”.  Transcribed by P. Graman, Jan. 2000.