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Our Hotel

rogerpeterogerpeteOGR Forum Member

My Town had a hotel in the center built around 1825 & it burned down 1929. The Hotel is the "original" building on the right side of the structure. Sometime later, the left addition was added, which had a general store & barber shop on the 1st level with a dance hall on the second floor. Our hotel was a recognized stage coach stop in the 1800's.

 

We (I) decided that a great Historical Society project for this years bicentennial of our town would be to recreate  the village center during our centennial, (1915). Our hotel is the first to be done.

 

Working off of a few photographs with no records of the building structure, I loaded a couple pictures into one of my CAD programs I use in my sign shop. Figuring that 80" is a good representation of an exterior door, I was able to scale out the entire building. 

 

When I decided to attempt this building, I wanted to "clean up" the lines a little. I wanted the building to look a little less "cobbled together" so I unified the front porch and the roof line.

 

 

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The point of this build was not to create an exact model of the building- but mostly to give a representation of how it once was, considering we now have a used car lot where this large building once sat.

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I still have a little trim to apply, and steps to build, but it is nice to take a couple old pictures, and craft it into something nice. The bonus to this project- I will have some more buildings to place during our seasonal Trains in the Town Hall... Glad to have the "Bloomfield House" on the display.  

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rogerpeterogerpeteOGR Forum Member

My family got off the boat & stopped here in 1874. This community is important to me. Our high school is about 1 block away from where this hotel was. My Grandfather graduated from my school in 1931, so he would have walked past this building more than once, probably going into the store & making purchases. This would have burned down during his sophomore year.
My intent is to rebuild the center by this summer. I intend on having this display open to the public, and have a large sign board describing each building as well as having memorabilia (such as the letterhead) on display.

These will all be laser cut structures, so once the design is done, I just need to contact my laser contractor to get additional ones or changes made, in the event someone local wants one. There are a lot of "old timers" here, and I think they would have an interest, at least in a building front, like the "Cats Meow" in the line of products.

 

Just wait until you see the next building- our hardware store. Back in the 1800's it was a Cabinet Shop & Undertaker- no kidding. I have a receipt from 1904 when my grandmother purchased a bedroom set from them. It looks like it was straight out of Dodge City!

Alan RogersAlan RogersOGR Forum Member

GREAT work, as usual, Roger.

 

Re: the cad program you use. I would sure appreciate some guidance in this area. What I need it for is this:

 

Occasionally I see a house I want to model that is occupied. Most of the time, the occupant turns me down in my request to measure and draw the outside of their home- mighty understandable in this day and age.

 

If I had a program where I could photograph the side of a structure from a safe distance, then plug it in, that would be ideal..

Many thanks!

 

 

railrailOGR Forum Member

Nice model. Did you have the posts made?

I used porch post replicas for my outdoor suspended layout as supports for the deck. I have several 1:1 posts in my collection of reclaimed architectural items. I used one to make a scaled down pattern, (not 1:48), and using an attachment for the wood lathe at work, I made the replicas.

Don

rogerpeterogerpeteOGR Forum Member
Alan-
If you can get your hands on a copy of Corel Draw, it should fit the bill for what you need. You can measure, and adjust sizes off of it, and convert it to a vector image to scale it out. You can also use Power point for creating the building, you will be limited if you are interested in scaling it out for production.
 
 

GREAT work, as usual, Roger.

 

Re: the cad program you use. I would sure appreciate some guidance in this area. What I need it for is this:

 

Occasionally I see a house I want to model that is occupied. Most of the time, the occupant turns me down in my request to measure and draw the outside of their home- mighty understandable in this day and age.

 

If I had a program where I could photograph the side of a structure from a safe distance, then plug it in, that would be ideal..

Many thanks!

 

 

 

Alan RogersAlan RogersOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by rogerpete:
Alan-
If you can get your hands on a copy of Corel Draw, it should fit the bill for what you need. You can measure, and adjust sizes off of it, and convert it to a vector image to scale it out. You can also use Power point for creating the building, you will be limited if you are interested in scaling it out for production.
 
 

GREAT work, as usual, Roger.

 

Re: the cad program you use. I would sure appreciate some guidance in this area. What I need it for is this:

 

Occasionally I see a house I want to model that is occupied. Most of the time, the occupant turns me down in my request to measure and draw the outside of their home- mighty understandable in this day and age.

 

If I had a program where I could photograph the side of a structure from a safe distance, then plug it in, that would be ideal..

Many thanks!

 

 

 

Thanks, Roger!

rogerpeterogerpeteOGR Forum Member
I resin cast them-
 
Thanks
Roger
 
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
Originally Posted by rogerpete:

The more I looked at the Hotel, the more I didn't like the porch columns. So I changed them out. Much happier now.

 

 

Wow.  Where did you get those columns, or do you have a really good, delicate little lathe?  I agree, they look much better.!

 

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