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The Colonial Hotel, now known as the Residential Hotel, is located in Cleveland's historic East 4th Street, adjacent to Prospect Avenue. The hotel was combined with the colonial arcade at 1898, and was built by designer George H.Smith, who is also the architect of Cleveland's more famous arcade, located under the glass shopping street built at 1890. Colonial Hotel 1898, 10, 2 1 opened one day earlier than scheduled, so an informal ceremony was held. However, the colonial arcade was not completely completed until 19 1 1, and John F. Raster hired architect Franz Warner. Warner was able to design an adjacent arcade to connect the William and Rogers buildings on Euclid Avenue (one block north) with the colonial hotel, thus creating Euclid Arcade. Today, the interconnected colonies and Euclid arcades are called Fifth Street Arcade.

Within one year after its opening, the hotel added a wing with 100 rooms on the side of Yuanjing Avenue, parallel to the improved colonial arcade. 190 1 year was expanded again, adding nearly 100 rooms and expanding the hotel restaurant. Hotels in this period occupied quite a lot of property on Euclid's side, but compared with it, the side facing Prospect Avenue was very shallow. With the expansion of this scale, the colonial hotel will become one of the largest hotels in the city. This renovation is to enable the colony to keep up with the accommodation and luxuries offered by other hotels in the city. In fact, some people speculate that the colony was just trying to keep up with the pace of the Hollington Hotel, which was one of the most luxurious hotels in the city during this period.

1930s However, during the Great Depression, the unemployment rate in Cleveland rose to nearly one third of its population, which had a great impact on the hotel industry. Colonies solved this problem well. In fact, their only concern is to compete with other hotels in Cleveland and try to attract more customers with new ideas and facilities.

Although the colony experienced the worst economic period in American history, with the deterioration of Cleveland, hotels finally began to decline. This happened in the 1970s and 1980s, when Cleveland lost nearly 25% of its population. By 1975, Cleveland is one fifth of the cities in China in terms of poverty, unemployment, poor housing, violent crimes and municipal debts. The colonial hotel also felt the pressure. First, the ownership was transferred to Milner Hotel Company, which is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. In this difficult economic period, all the colonies can do to survive is to move. After this exchange, the situation in the colony seems to have become worse. The bad luck of the colony continues, which is reflected in the merchants in Cleveland Plain. Most notably, there have been two deaths in each other within five years. The first victim was Dan Duffy, a popular lawyer in Cleveland and a loyal customer of the Colonial Hotel. The second victim was John B. Kadav, who died in a fire because Kadav smoked carelessly. However, in order to end these economic difficulties, the colonial hotel was closed on 1978.

However, this is not the end of colonial hotels. After the hotel was closed for 20 years, the idea of reopening the hotel entered the minds of businessmen as part of a broader attempt to protect and revitalize Cleveland's historic city. This project was finally implemented in 1998, when investors cooperated with the booming hotel company Marriott, hoping to open a lodging hotel in the former colonial hotel. The project will not only build a new hotel in the city center, but also revitalize Cleveland arcade. This eventually led to a $30 million project to transform the space into a Marriott Hotel with 65,438+044 rooms and 60,000 square feet of shopping area. This hotel will eventually open in early 2000, and will continue to develop into a modern hotel, still trying to compete with other hotels in the recovering cities around it.