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Property Features
The New Devoin House is a Second Empire style building largely constructed of red brick. The building has three stories with the upper story enclosed in the mansard roof. On the north ell of the building, the walls are covered with aluminum and vertical wood siding. An historic photograph shows that this part of the hotel was originally covered with clapboard siding (see Survey Report, cover page of Chapter 17). The building features primarily single-light openings covered with replacement aluminum storm and screen combination windows. The segmental arches in the brick portion of the building are slightly enclosed, as are some of the entrances. The dormers in the mansard are very shallow with gable roofs.
Hotels were an important part of the city's commercial economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Devoin House, later known as the Inn Hotel, was one of the largest and most important of the city's historic hotels. It operated as a hotel until well after World War II.
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