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Banked this history lk-civ-hotels and Businesses lk-biz-hotels, tested as houses and for technology
The banked articles name three keepers; this article tests whether they are a succession of one house — they cannot be proved so — and sweeps the rosters for the hotel technology first the checklist describes, finding the rosters hold no technology at all. The keepers, as banked: Rudy Shirk, hotel keeper, 1880–81; Henry Cordary — also printed Cordray — 1882–83; George Deed, "hotel and livery," 1884–85. As a succession of men in one trade across three directory editions, the sequence is solid. As a succession of one house on one corner, it is not proved by any carrier reached: no edition ties its keeper to the Forrest Hotel by name, the Forrest's proprietor stands in no carrier (the 1875 Atlas's detached proprietor row being name-lost in its column split, as banked), and whether Shirk's house, Cordary's and Deed's are the Forrest under three keepers, or successive houses as the village's trade moved, stands open — printed open, with the deeds and the Standard run as its settlers. The technology sweep: no elevator, no bath, no telephone, no electric light and no other hotel technology first is named for any Lakeville house in the gazetteer rosters, the histories or any carrier reached — the rosters print keepers and trades, never plant — and the limb closes negative at roster strength, the honest size of a record that lists a town's hotel for a decade without once describing it.