Name/Title
Carling HotelEntry/Object ID
2016.019.019Description
Carling Hotel (notice the lack of marquee)
33-35 W Adams Street
Architect: Thompson, Holmes, & Converse (New York)
Opened September 1, 1926 as a thirteen-story hotel owned by the Dinkler Hotel Co. of Atlanta. It was named after Carling L. Dinkler, Vice-President of the hotel chain. It was described as having 300 rooms with bath, running ice water, and fans.
The three lower stories are faced with Indiana Limestone. The opper stories are trimmed with terra-cotta and surmounted by a balustrade with limestone coping. The building was completely made of fire proof construction.
In 1936, the hotel's name was changed to the Roosevelt.
On December 29, 1963, a $350,000 fire killed twenty-two people in the hotel, which was filled with visitors for the Gator Bowl game the following day. The next year, the hotel closed.
In the 1980s, it reopened as the Jacksonville Regency House, an apartment complex for retirees, but closed in 1989.
While vacant, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
As of 2003, the building was renovated by Vestcor and opened in 2005 as an apartment complex, renamed again to The Carling.Collection
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