Berkley Arms Hotel 1891

Title: Berkley Arms Hotel 1891
Date: 1891-10-26/1891-10-28
Description: The Berkley Arms Hotel was constructed in 1891, but burned down shortly before being completed, on October 26, 1891. It was constructed by Hoover, Hughes, & Co. of Pittsburgh for the Central Land Co. of Buchanan at a cost of $100,000, but insured for only $57,000.

Records include:
Drawing of the hotel, titled "Berkley Arms Hotel - Pride of Buchanan"
Article titled "Destructive Fire at Buchanan" from the Weekly Virginian and Carolinian dated October 29, 1891.
Article titled "Another Big Buchanan Blaze" from the Roanoke Daily Times dated October 28, 1891.
Article, untitled, from the Roanoke Daily Times dated June 14, 1891.
Article titled, "The New Berkley Arms Hotel in Ashes. Loss $120,000." from the Roanoke Times, dated October 28, 1891.
Excerpt from the Journal of the Roanoke Historical Society Winter 1970.
Creator: United Press; Weekly Virginian and Carolinian; Roanoke Daily Times; The Roanoke Times
Format: image/jpeg
Subject: Hotel; Buchanan
Type: Image; Text
Publisher: Weekly Virginian and Carolinian; Roanoke Daily Times; The Roanoke Times
Coverage: Buchanan, Botetourt County
Rights: For newspaper articles: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/
Journal of the Roanoke Historical Society: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Provenance: Provided to the Botetourt County Libraries by the Katherine Harris Estate

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