U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for October 14: Inn Vogue

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

INN VOGUE

Profile America — Friday, October 14th. Hotels and motels have long competed for customers on the comfort and amenities of their rooms. Long before cable, Wi-Fi, coffeemakers and hair dryers entered the picture, more basic things were offered as lures. This month in 1829, the 170-room Tremont hotel in Boston became the first in young America to be considered a modern, first-class lodging. It was distinguished by the availability of single rooms, with keys for the guests, and plumbing in the basement bathrooms. Uniquely, the Tremont was gas-lit and provided washbowls, pitchers and bars of soap in each room. Today, there are nearly 51,000 hotels and motels across the country, providing free guest soap as a most trifling amenity. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.

Sources:
Kane's Famous First Facts, 2422
Tremont Hotel features/accessed 7/22/2016:
http://www.whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/42.358019,-71.060426/id/45819/info/details/zoom/14/
Hotels and motels/NAICS 72111: http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~72111

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu). 

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