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The Midland Grand Hotel - George Gilbert Scott won the competition in 1865 for the design of a 150 bed hotel for the Midland Railway Company, to be constructed next to its London terminus, St Pancras, which was still under construction at the time. At 300 rooms, Scott's design was much bigger and more expensive than the original specifications. Despite this, the company liked his plans and construction began. Scott's design was for a hotel with five floors below roof level but in the event it was built with four (which remains the case today) to save on construction costs – although the Midland Railway frequently reproduced Scott's original impression, showing the hotel with its non-existent top floor, in its publicity material. The east wing opened on 5 May 1873, with the Midland Railway appointing Herr Etzensberger (formerly of the Victoria Hotel, Venice) as general manager. The hotel was completed in spring 1876. The hotel was expensive, with costly fixtures including a grand staircase, rooms with gold leaf walls and a fireplace in every room. It had many innovative features such as hydraulic lifts, concrete floors, revolving doors and fireproof floor constructions, though none of the rooms had bathrooms, as was the convention of the time. The original hotel closed in 1935. George Gilbert Scott considered this hotel as his most successful project. See Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pancras_Renaissance_London_Hotel and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gilbert_Scott#Cathedrals '