subject to discomfiture because of lack of hotel facilities. The Loraine will cater to all classes of the traveling public but will meet most favor with the intellectual classes which make their hub Madison. It will draw thousands of dollars in trade from medical circles for the new Wisconsin General Hospital erected by the state of Wisconsin at a cost of $1,500,000 which will open in September and several other clinics sponsored by church bodies are under construction. The Loraine was designed by architect Herbert W. Tullgren, along with several other Schroeder hotels. It rises ten stories, with a classical column concept where the first two floors are the base of the column, the middle six are the shaft, and the top two are the head. On the street side the first two stories are clad in buff-colored terra cotta tiles, with bays separated by pilasters with copper wall sconces. The middle six stories are clad in brown brick with terra cotta and limestone trim, with bands of trim running up and down. Then a terra cotta cornice leads to the top two stories which are clad in red brick trimmed with a terra cotta arcade. Inside the first two floors were public spaces: the foyer, registration area, cigar counter, the lobby, kitchen, and the two-story Crystal Ballroom where large social functions were held. The eight floors above held the guest rooms. The decoration draws from Gothic style, Mediterranean Revival, and perhaps Tudor Revival. Schroeder named the hotel "Loraine" for his niece who had died while it was being built. The Loraine opened in June of 1924, offering 250 guest rooms. Business was good, and the following year Schroeder added on another 100-room wing toward capitol square. For 45 years after the Loraine was Madison's largest hotel and hosted many of the city's biggest events. Over the years its guests include Gloria Swanson, Mae West, Ethel Barrymore, Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy. In 1963 the hotel was remodeled and expanded again, to 400 rooms. In 1968 a group of local businessmen bought it from Schroeder and leased three stories as state offices. In 1988 the state took over the entire building as offices of the state Departments of Justice and Commerce. Those departments relocated to a newly constructed building in 2001. The building was then converted into condominiums which opened in 2004. The building was added to the