1. The Emergence of the American First-Class Hotel, 1820s: All at Hand, and All of the Best
2. The Tremont House, Boston, 1829: A Style Entirely New
3. The Proliferation of Antebellum Hotels, 1830-1860: Every Thing Is on a Gigantic Scale
4. The Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, 1860: In Reference to the Building of a Monster Hotel
5. Production and Consumption in an American Palace, 1850-1875: To Keep a Hotel
6. The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, 1875: The Greatest Caravansary in the World
7. The New Modern Hotel, 1880-1920: It Is Part of the Hotel Business to Hide All These Things from View
8. The Stevens Hotel, Chicago, 1927: Virtually a Multiple of Twenty-Five Small Hotels