The only remaining Gulf-front early-twentieth-century hotel grew by accretion beginning with the 1895 boarding house of Cora and Walter White (now at the western end) and by the 1920s had become one of the Coast’s most elegant hostelries. The dormered rear wing was added in 1912 as a dining room and in 1928 was rotated ninety degrees to its current position. In 1923, Mobile architect Rogers designed the Spanish Colonial Revival three-story central front section, with its broken pediment frontispiece. Rogers returned in 1927–1929 to add the fifty-room, four-story east wing, with its square elevator tower and Ionic portico. (An oval swimming pool was added at the front lawn in 1954.) Under new ownership after World War II, the original 1895 house was dramatically renovated in a classical style, and today its monumental Corinthian portico is the main entrance. The circular fountain now in the Beach Boulevard median was built in 1926. The hotel closed in 1988 and then reopened in 2014 following a renovation.