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Hotels were (31) the earliest facilities (32) bound the United States together. They were both creatures and creators of communi
Hotels were (31) the earliest facilities (32) bound the United States together. They were both creatures and creators of communi
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Hotels were (31) the earliest facilities (32) bound the United States together. They were both creatures and creators of communities, as (33) as symptoms of the frenetic quest for communities. (34) in the first part of the nineteenth century, Americans were already forming the (35) of gathering from all corners of the nation for both public and (36) business and pleasure purposes. Conventions were the new occasions, and hotels were distinctively American facilities (37) conventions possible. The first national convention of a major party to choose a (38) for President (that of the Clay for President) was held in Baltimore, at a hotel that was then reputed to be the best in the country. The presence in Baltimore (39) Barnum’s City Hotel, a six-storey building with two hundred apartments, helps explain (40) many other early national political conventions were held there.
In the long run, too, American hotels made other national conventions not only possible (41) pleasant. The growing custom of regularly assembling (42) afar the representatives of all kinds of groups—not only for political conventions, but also for commercial, professional, learned, and avocational (43)—in (44) supported the multiplying hotels. By mid-twentieth century, conventions accounted (45) over a third of the yearly room occupancy of all (46) in the nation, about eighteen thousand different conventions were held annually (47) a total attendance of about ten million persons.
Nineteenth-century American hotelkeepers, (48) were no longer the genial, deferential "hosts" of the eighteenth-century European inn, became leading citizens. Holding a large stake in the community, they exercised power to make (49) prosper. As owners or managers of the local "palace of the public", they were makers and shapers of a principal community attraction. Travelers from (50) were mildly shocked by this high social position.
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