From the lobby floor, the massive central chimney rises up past tier after tier of lodgepole columns and twisted log brackets and railings to the shadowy reaches of the 92-foot-high pitched half-log ceiling. By day, dormer windows admit shafts of sunlight that play across the varnished fantasy of beams, columns, and railings. The room is a spectacle to be slowly absorbed by gazing upward, then by ascending the upper balconies to explore the mystery of the extraordinary space.²⁹