Buzby hired Philadelphia architect Walter Smedley a fellow Quaker, to design a huge new six-story eastern wing, which was completed in 1906. The hotel was sold to Walter Buzby just after the turn of the twentieth century. Borton, who extended the hotel and then built a large addition in 1892, in the French chateau style. After the war, it was acquired by Joseph H. The Dennis Hotel began as a pre-Civil War cottage along Michigan Avenue, built by William Dennis. 1906, showing 1892 wing on the left and larger 1906 wing on the right, with turrets of the Blenheim behind it
