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BUILDING BLOCKS: The Charmant Hotel
By: Matt Taub, [email protected]//May 20, 2015//
Project: The Charmant Hotel
Address: 101 State St., La Crosse
Cost: $27 million
Size: 51,533 square feet of occupied floor space, with 67 rooms over six levels, including a roof deck area of 1,838 square feet on the sixth level.
Start date: Oct. 15
Estimated completion date: Aug. 1
Owner: Weber Holdings
Lead contractor: C.D. Smith Construction Inc.
Lead architect/engineer: The Kubala Washatko Architects Inc.
Landscape architect/structural engineer: R.A. Smith National Inc.
Number of workers employed: About 115
Project challenge: Preserving architectural details of the original building, including its maple wood flooring, wood beams and exposed brick, while reimagining others. Granite street pavers from Europe provided a historic element and streetscape aesthetic.
Significance to the region: The hotel is a converted candy factory, built in 1898.
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