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The Royal Connaught Hotel is a 13-storey building in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. It was built by Harry Frost of Buffalo, New York in 1914, who also started up and owned the Frost Fence Company in Hamilton. It is located at the corner of King Street East and John Street South. As of 2014, it is being converted to a condominium. ==Timeline== * 1911 - Businessman Harry Louis Frost approaches the city about building a grand hotel. * 1914 - A building permit is issued for construction on the site of the Waldorf Hotel. * 1916 - The hotel opens with a lavish banquet and dance on 5 June. * 1922 - Prior to the 1922-23 season, the NHL would hold its Governors meeting at the Royal Connaught Hotel on King Street, where the visiting NHL teams who came to town to play against the Hamilton Tigers stayed as well. * 1927- In 1927, CKOC radio station was finding the Lister Building accommodations unsatisfactory and the radio station was moved to the 11th floor of the Royal Connaught Hotel. The transmitter power was raised from 50 to 100 watts. For a brief time, CKOC and CHML shared the same frequency... 880 on the radio dial. In 1931, CKOC changed to the 630 on the dial and boosted power to a full 1,000 watts. The radio business was beginning to boom!〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.oldies1150.com/node/509803 ) 〕 * 1929- The hotel expands into a neighbouring building. * 1930- United Hotels Company, which owned the Connaught, announces it has been sold. The new owner adds 200 rooms and turns the bottom floors into offices and shops. * 1952- The hotel is sold to the Sheraton chain, which renames it The Sheraton-Connaught Hotel and later completes a million-dollar renovation. * 1973- The hotel is again sold, this time to Toronto-based Citicom. Another renovation worth $4 million is completed. * 1988- The hotel is sold to Joymarmon Properties Ltd. * 1992- Joymarmon loses the hotel when its mortgage holder forecloses. * 1993- The hotel becomes a franchise under the Howard Johnson chain. * 2002- Canmac Hotels Corporation, a master at reviving struggling hotels, buys the hotel, assumes its $6-million debt and promises full-scale renovations. * 2004- Hotel closes after going into receivership. * 2005- Local businessmen (IJNR TRUST) buy the hotel for $4.5 million. * 2008- Real Estate developer Harry Stinson makes a deposit with plans to reopen it for Christmas 2009. * 2008- June 2, 2008, Harry Stinson makes a public presentation of his proposed 100-storey ''Connaught Towers'' at the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce building. Once complete, it will become the tallest building in Canada.〔De Lazzer , Rachel. "Condo king buys Royal Connaught for $9.5m." Hamilton Spectator. 29 February 2008: A1.〕〔"Every city needs an icon."- Harry Stinson, Hamilton Spectator. 24 May 2008: WR7.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.theconnaught.ca )〕 Three months later, on Thursday September 4, Harry Stinson closes up the Connaught Towers sales office in downtown Hamilton and the project is officially cancelled. * 2014- June 2014, Two of the largest builders in the Hamilton area, Spallacci Group and Valery Homes, teamed up to renovate the hotel, and after months of renovation, the front lobby was given a complete restoration, and sample units for The Residences of Royal Connaught were made available to the public to purchase. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Royal Connaught Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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