Hotel LaFontaine


Hotel LaFontaine
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Hotel LaFontaine, May 2012

Location	200 W. State St., Huntington, Indiana
Coordinates	40°52′52″N 85°29′42″W / 40.88111°N 85.49500°W / 40.88111; -85.49500Coordinates: 40°52′52″N 85°29′42″W / 40.88111°N 85.49500°W / 40.88111; -85.49500
Area	less than one acre
Built	1925 (1925)
Architect	Stevens, Robert W.
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference #	84001056^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 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.

References

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-04-01. Note: This includes Jean Gernand (September 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Hotel LaFontaine" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-01. and Accompanying photographs.

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