| Palmer House |
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| Architect: |
L. Murray Dixon
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| Year Constructed: |
1939
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| Address: |
1119 Collins Avenue
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| Façade Structure: |
The hotel has an asymmetric façade with a tower atop the left coner, which ends in a "lighthouse" finial.
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| Façade Decorations: |
The top of the right section is decorated with three relief starbursts. There are decorative vertical bands on the left section.
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| Contour: |
The building has squared-off corners, with windows folding around the main left corner. The eyebrows have rounded corners.
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| Entrance: |
There is a tall and narrow entryway at the left of the façade with a recessed doorway. The entryway is framed in green-colored keystone. The side of the entryway is also surfaced in keystone beyond the entryway frame. To the right of the entryway there is a large window with an eyebrow canopy forming a porch, with a ribbed column at the right end and green keystone molding at the bottom.
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| Eyebrows: |
There are eyebrows shading all the windows on the front and sides. There is an eyebrow forming a shallow porch to the right side of the door, which continues over the windows on the right side of the first floor.
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| Porthole Window: |
There is a large vertical oval window on the left section at the ground floor level.
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