The 600-room hotel included a drugstore, printing shop, carpentry and upholstery shop, and a photo lab. The Biltmore of the 20s also featured rooftop gardens and chicken coops. Guests were offered a choice of six different restaurants. Shortly after its opening, the Journal hailed it as the “new tourist and social center of Providence, Rhode Island.”
The Hotel continued to be Providence's hot spot during the Big Band era of the 1930s and 40s.The Biltmore's Garden Room swung to the sounds of such famous orchestra leaders as Benny Goodman and Jimmy Dorsey. The dance floor was once turned into an aquarium, complete with live fish, for a performance by Esther Williams. For Sonia Henie’s ice show, the floor was frozen solid.
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