[1] It was designed in the Federation architectural style by the firm Porter & Thomas, and meant to be the most luxurious hotel in Western Australia outside Perth.

[2][3][4] It became the first hotel in Kalgoorlie to have electric lighting, with its own generator, and fresh water in all bathrooms coming directly from its own condensers.

[2][3][4] In the year after its completion regular and repeated newspaper articles and photographs were used to praise the hotel and its presentation.

[11] Herbert Hoover (later the US president from 1929 to 1933) visited the hotel regularly when he was working as a mining engineer in Kalgoorlie.

Where in soft cascades of cadence from a garden close at hand, Came the murmurous, mellow music of a sweet orchestral band.