An extremely English writer has a feature on the old inns of London. The pictures are surprising. All the inns have balconies and galleries on each floor, with the rooms opening off the balconies.
US hotels didn’t follow this model, except for some ‘medicinal porches’ on hot springs resorts. Hotels were strictly self-contained with central halls instead of outside galleries, UNTIL 1950 when Holiday Inn and its imitators exactly reproduced the old London model!
Polistra's Mill 