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Non-Pan-Am Rates Buffalo 1901:

  • weekly "warm front sleeping rooms" $1.25 week ($24.94)
  • Furnished, gas & bath $1.50 week ($29.93)
  • 112 Niagara St, furnished $1.50 up ($29.93)
  • private family, board $3.00 week ($59.85)

Pan-Am Rates:

Average hotel costs $.50 - $10 per day ($9.98 - 199.50); "favorite Pan-Am rates" $1 - 2 per room per day ($19.95 - 39.90)
American Plan - 3 meals per day included in rate
European Plan - no meals included in rate

Example Listings:

1. Statler's Elmwood and Forest Ave 5000 rooms. $2.00 ($39.90) and up. Price includes breakfast and 6 p.m. dinner.

2. The City Hotel Michigan & Exchange St. 150 rooms. Daily Rate: $2.00 ($39.90) and up; European Plan No meals, but hot and cold running water in every room.

3. The Lenox - North Street near Delaware 600 rooms. $3.00 ($59.85) and up.

4. From the June 26, 1901 Herald, a Hammondsport, NY newspaper: Many readers of the Herald will visit Buffalo and Pan-American Exposition this summer, who are now at a loss as to where to secure accommodations while there; to such let us say: - stop at "The Whitney," No. 65 Whitney Place, where you will find first-class accommodations, with nice, clean, cool rooms, good beds, all new furnishings, bath and all modern conveniences. Rates only $1.00 ($19.95) a person per day; meals (breakfast only) 25 cents extra ( $4.99); situated right in the heart of the business section, within 10 minutes walk of any theatre or place of amusement, and on direct street car line to grounds, fare 5c. The above rates are low considering the accommodations. To secure rooms, circulars and other information, address J. L. Snyder, proprietor.

5. Hotel Elmhurst Forest Avenue near Lincoln Parkway gate. One person $1.50 - 2.00 (19.95 - $39.90) per day; two persons $2.00 - 3.00 per day ($39.90 - $59.85). Dining rooms open all hours where light lunches are served.

6. Irvington Hotel 351 Washington St. 100 rooms. Newly furnished; free baths. European plan $.75 and $1 ($14.96 - 19.95); American $1.25 ($24.94) and up.

7. Castle Inn Niagara Square and Delaware Avenue 250 rooms. $3.00 ($59.85) and up.

8. The Alcazar Amherst St. across from Exposition on Elmwood side. 500 rooms. $1 ($19.95) per night.

 

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