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direction of John Anderson and Joseph Price, and opened January 1st
1888. The Hotel Ormond was placed under the management of Dr. S.
E. Churchill and his sister, Miss Churchill, of Churchill Hall in the
Catskills.

John Anderson owned most of the land on which the hotel was built,
and Charles Bostrom also gave some of the land through subscription
to the Ormond Hotel Company along with purchase of four shares of
company stock. The story is told that the plan for the first floor of the
hotel was submitted by George Penfield, the precocious, fourteen-
year-old son of E.M. "Mose" Penfield, and his plans were accepted
over all others that were offered in the “Hotel Design Contest”. This
early construction of the hotel brought employment to many men and
women of Ormond. The women placed heavy brown paper padding on
the floors, and over that they tacked down the flimsy, dreary-looking
carpet colored brown and dark red, "with a faint touch of green,
suggesting a fern pattern." Other women sat at sewing machines

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