The Langham Hotel, Portland-Place, [London], 1865. The hotel '...contains eight floors and upwards of 600 rooms and apartments...There are, besides the passenger lift, also luggage lifts, dinner-service lifts, and a coal lift, all worked by hydraulic power...The entire of the ground and basement floors are fireproof, also the whole of the corridors...There is always a large and constant supply of pure spring water, raised by a steam pumping-engine from an artesian well, constructed on the premises, nearly 300 ft. deep. The water is raised to capacious iron tanks in the towers, and thence distributed over the whole building, the daily consumption being estimated at not less than 25,000 gallons...The architects of the building are Mr. Giles, of Craven-street, and Mr. Murray, of Portman-street...Messrs. Lucas Brothers, the well-known contractors, have carried out these works in their usual manner, and, considering the magnitude of the hotel, in an unprecedentedly short time. The hotel has been furnished and decorated, in a most satisfactory and novel manner, by Messrs. Jackson and Graham; the decorations from the designs of Mr. Owen Jones'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. AiWire