Main Entrance
When you step inside the entrance of the former HHS building, you are greeted with the former office's reception area. All original woodwork, trim, flooring, light fixtures, counters and other details original to the building were gutted and removed when the building was sold in 1950 to be turned into a college, and then an office building in 1972.
Even the staircase and its rails are not what is pictured in post cards of the building. The original decorative wood handrails were removed.
Hotel Rooms
The rooms that once served hotel guests have been updated to include modern heating, plumbing, drop ceilings, and commercial carpeting in order to accomodate college students and later office workers. The historic turn-of-the-century details that once made these rooms fit for resort guests are gone. For example, the rooms that once served as bathrooms were gutted to be used as closets, and retiled with materials from the 1950s. Even the doors to the rooms were altered for ventilation grates.
The Mud Rooms
All of the areas that once served guests receiving mud baths have been stripped of historically relevant characteristics, like the mud tubs themselves and decorative elements. Most of these areas no long exist in any recognizeable form. In other areas, like the room pictured below, the floor was mudded over or replaced with new flooring. Even the tiles on the walls were removed or painted over.
Even the large room that stored the mud was refurbished to serve as a filing area.
