Talk:Crown Spa Hotel

Context
It needs an intro sentence: Crown Hotel is _________. And it would be helpful to mention what country it's in. NickelShoe (Talk) 18:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Done! Thanks for the help! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Born And Bred Scarborough (talk • contribs).

should have how ever many rooms it has. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.189.17.37 (talk) 08:34, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 12:29, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

John Gibson
This source credits a John Gibson, architect based in Market Street, Malton, with design of the 1844 Crown Hotel, Scarborough. It is questionable whether this was the John Gibson (1817-92) who designed the 1869 Todmorden Unitarian Church and assisted Sir Charles Barry in designing the new Houses of Parliament, London, in the 1840s, according to this biographical source. The latter Gibson commenced his own practice in 1844 with successful designs for the 1846 National Bank of Scotland in Glasgow (which still exists as Langside Hall, having been relocated brick-by brick in 1902-3). So his reputed work on the Scarborough Crown Hotel remains in need of verification. Bjenks (talk) 04:09, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

'Ridings of Yorkshire' source
I thank EdwardUK for rescuing an archived version of this source. Unfortunately, the relevant wording seems a little rash and questionable: "This influx of visitors convinced a young architect (John Gibson) with an eye to the future to open Scarborough's first purpose-built hotel. ... he decided that the area above the popular Spa building could be developed. He designed and laid the foundations of a ‘hotel’. Gibson then passed the construction of this hotel to the newly-formed South Cliff Building Company. On Tuesday, 10 June 1845 Scarborough's first hotel was opened..." This treats the architect as the initiating entrepreneur as well as the intending hotel operator, for which there is no evidence. It is elsewhere documented that the hotel was opened by J. F. Sharpin. I find it questionable that a "young architect" (without mention of a funded commission or client) could envisage and create a huge hotel with "more than 120 apartments" and "lock-up houses for 40 carriages". Clearly we need more reliable sources for this part of the article. Bjenks (talk) 01:59, 23 December 2016 (UTC)