The Lego hotel

Lego has come up with numerous hotel buildings for the town plan, but I decided to build one from the suggestions illustrated on the Samsonite town plan for the US market, 1961. The fabulous Brick Fetish has nicely cleaned up scans of the front and back covers (click images on that page to enlarge); that particular plan having the same layout as my Continental one. 

The building was largely constructed on top of my MacBook keyboard so I could follow the illustration. In 1961 it would have been built from cellulose acetate bricks, but I built it out of new ABS parts with the exception of the vintage base plate and printed brick on the roof. Cellulose acetate bricks don't hold together very well (if at all) so this building would have been extremely unstable if built from them. The nice thing is that transparent 1x2 bricks are available again without anything inside, so those again look as their cellulose acetate predecessors do.

The rear of the building isn't shown in any illustrations afaik so I just made that up myself, roughly in line with the front.