Saunders' New Hall - November 1867

SAUNDERS

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 12/13/2014 at 18:15:30

SAUNDERS' NEW HALL.

Mt. Pleasant can now boast of as nice a public Hall as any city west of Chicago. Mr. Presley Saunders, President of the First National Bank of this city and one of the first settlers in this part of loyal Iowa, has greatly improved the looks of our city by the erection of a fine brick block on West Monroe street. The lower story is fitted up for store rooms and the second story is what is now called 'Saunders' Hall. This Hall is just what has been needed in this city for some time. It is 71? x 44 feet with galleries on both sides and on one end, and twelve hundred people can be easily seated. In connection with the Hall is a magnificent dining room 80 x 20 feet, and just under the dining room is a large kitchen with a cook-stove and pump in it which makes it very convenient for Festivals. There are three ways of getting into the galleries from the lower floor, and two places for entrance and exit. Altogether the Hall is the handsomest and most conveniently arranged of any we have ever seen anywhere, and Mr. Saunders is entitled to the thanks of this entire community for supplying them with a Hall of which they can well feel proud.

["Mt. Pleasant Journal", November 1, 1867]