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PAd3EM-WATmu30C84R0KtthE.6EmemAVFmRuAAr'tt.e Fire detection and protection equipment was a priority after a nre, apparently caused by faulty wiring, destroyed the peaked roof in 1969. It only takes one nre to really were you, said Sonia Adlys. Over the years different owners modernized, painted, covered walls with panelling. plastered over brick, and walled- up unnecessary space. Running the Huether was not to be a tshort-term project. The Adlys family has enpyed ripping off panelling, restoring walls. sandblasting the brick and discovering old rooms. Albert Snyder acquired the hotel in 1943; it was he who changed the name to the "Kent Hotel." hoping to attract upper Income patrons. Eleven years later the hotel was bought by John Adlys. The description of the actual hotel included 40 "comfortable bedrooms," seven parlors. a dining room, an office and a bar. The menu was "excellent" and the cuisine "unsurpassed by that of, any other chef in the section of the county," Accommodation cost one dollar per night. Praise like that is rare indeed. During the years from 1899 to 1930 the Kuntz Brewing Company. now Labatt's. used the rear warehouse to malt barley. The warehouse later became the Masonic Temple, A description of the establishment was taken from "Indus- tries in Canada" by M.G. Bixby and Co., printed in 1886. It noted the Lion brewery has "rapidly advanced until at present time it holds a prominent and enviable position among the lager breweries of the county," and the Lion brand of lager was selling well in Perth and Waterloo Counties. The machinery used to brew the lager was described as "all the latest and most improved . . . the engine is 25 horsepower." They have 146 years of history to recover; the hotel was originally built in 1842 by Wilhelm Rebecher. His Lion Brewery was a small brewing company and hotel. In 1856 the brewery was expanded when Adam and Christopher Huether bought the hotel and brewery. The Huether Hotel was once "the" place to stay in Waterloo. Owners Bernie and Sonia Adlys and their sons Kelly and Dave are now working to revive those days. Since buying the hotel from Bernie's father John Adlys in 1975, the family has spent more than a decade making repairs and improvements, and attempting to restore the hotel to its original condition. Restorative . touches to 'the place' to stay ‘ " "'2‘ . Fi " .21“? 1. 4, 't'd C,a"t'-, Cr' f. a - CI wt a b' 3- 4., z Le"irs 'iot','utd (irsCc% ‘ al ' W iV'GdPac. x . “a "__;v_~“;l v. Ind-I ma1mumm’ ___ - 'lrt'l'?fdlllll'lltlxlfllflt'dt21 - 9ttrmtrfk'ttn_Adted-gt-ofEngtiahAie 'pmt-tfat-ttf-tttmd-M-thermit-tte