Homes, Lakes, and Boulevards. Its commercial and mercantile institutions, its flour mills, and its lumber industry have given it renown, yet throughout the length and breadth of the land, it has gained no greater renown among discriminating people than that given by The Leamington, the greatest apartment house of the growing Northwest. The Leamington stands out as one of the beacon lights of Minneapolis. Centrally located on Third Avenue between Tenth and Eleventh Street, it has a frontage of 331 feet extending back half a block. Its 860 rooms not only offer accommodation for discriminating Minneapolis people who desire homelike apartments with all the comforts of a modern fireproof hotel but also provide quarters for from 75 to 100 transient guests. Its massiveness is a striking feature, yet, at the same time, an atmosphere of home life prevails. The palatial lobby and lounge with the 350-foot colonnade, the club floor, club service throughout, the hotel gardens, the porches, and the artistic decorations of the handsome dining rooms and ballrooms all add to the joys of being a guest at the Leamington. These are but a few of the original ideas.
The main dining room is one of its principal attractions. Four hundred people can be comfortably seated at one time and the service and cuisine are such that the dining hour at the Leamington is looked forward to by guests as an hour when the aesthetic and artistic tastes are satisfied as well as the material wants. Just off the main dining room is the ballroom, the center of social activities of the city. Private dining rooms are provided for social functions and in every one of these departments the guest finds the service and comfort that is making The Leamington the most favored hostelry of Minneapolis. Under the personal supervision of W. S. Morse, one of the best-known hotel and apartment house specialists of the nation, the Leamington is lengthening its strides in public popularity. Mr. Morse has studied and solved problems of the modern hotel. He has been the direct means of keeping the Leamington free from those things that detract from favor. When he took charge Of the Leamington on September 1, 1916, after serving five years as assistant manager, a standard Of excellence was set up and strictly adhered to. The cut-rate store has never been successful. The cut-rate hotel is classed in the same category. Leamington standard rates attract only those who appreciate Leamington comforts.
Mr. Morse, as vice president and manager of the Leamington Company, has been given the wholesome cooperation of the owner of
this great apartment hotel. Mr. Morse is ably assisted in the hotel management by Boone Riley. Constructive activities Of Mr.
Morse has been a dominant factor in civic growth and in the Leamington, he is placing at the disposal of discriminating people an
institution with an international reputation for luxurious comfort, culture, and refinement.
-Minneapolis Golden Jubilee, 1867-1917: a History of Fifty Years of Civic And Commercial Progress
