Thompson, Polly Povey2023-05-292023-05-291935-05https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2833867 pagesDuring the last few decades the American tendency towards specialization has spread into almost every field of human endeavor, so that it is not at all surprising to discover a demand for specialized hotels with specialized functions. With the national fondness for holding conventions, the ordinary transients hotel, residential hotels, and resort hotels, with their conventional facilities have been found inadequate for the needs of large group meetings together in national or sectional conventions. In the ordinary hotel many of the facilities desirable and entertaining large, unified groups meeting together for business and pleasure are lacking. For instance, national conventions are showing an increasing desire to be housed in hotels having adequate conventions rooms, ballroom, lecture rooms, and the like – those features which are demanded by a group rather than an individual. Thus, it is not at all surprising that modern hotel architects should find themselves investigating the possibility of hotels designed specifically for conventions. It is also significant, in this respect, that the trend seems not to favor the erection of the specialized hotels for conventions in the large cities, but to place them, wherever possible, in the open country in beautiful and picturesque surroundings. The popularity of resort hotels for conventions bears out this statement. The fact that conventional group is, to some extent, removed from the distractions of a large city, the fact that the various delegates are living together as a large family group, so to speak, has the very desirable effect of creating a more unified feeling and of enabling the various members of the company family to become better acquainted. Moreover, with the most recent developments in rapid transportation the old argument of location in a large city or in a city centrally located has lost most of its effectiveness. As a result, specialized hotels of this kind are no longer bound by such limitations and they may, in fact, be located where other conditions seem more favorable. Access to the nearby city is easy by motors when desired. In point of natural beauty, picturesqueness, recreational facilities, and transportational advantages, the United states offers no more attractive location than the Oregon Coast.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USOregon CoastlocationarchitectureThesis / Dissertation