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| | | | Big Four Ballroom
The Big Four Ballroom is
the hotel’s original ballroom. Today it is utilized for numerous social events,
banquets, conferences, and meetings including weddings, receptions, class and
family reunions, birthday and anniversary parties, corporate meetings,
religious retreats, and shows. It is named after the Big Four Railroad – The
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway – commonly abbreviated
CCC&StL. This railroad company was historically significant to Wabash, the
region and the nation with its primary routes were in Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, and Ohio. |
| | Wabash Cannonball Room
The Wabash Cannonball Room is the upper section of the hotel’s
original ballroom. Often combines with the Big Four Room for additional space,
it is separated by a barrister. In a previous life, this section of the
ballroom was a pool hall. Today it is
utilized for numerous social events, banquets, conferences, and meetings
including weddings, receptions, class and family reunions, birthday and
anniversary parties, corporate meetings, religious retreats, conferences, and
shows. This venue is named after the Cannonballs, which were known as
superb trains of their time, because they were equipped with smokers, parlor
coaches, and Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars, and lighted with oil lamps and
heated with pot-bellied stoves. |
| | Cloud Club
At Charley Creek Inn, we are deeply committed to
contributing to a healthy state of our environment. When the hotel was first
constructed it had four floors. During the extensive restoration and
renovation, a new fifth floor and rooftop garden room was constructed, named
the Cloud Club. The Cloud Club is Downtown Wabash’s only “green space”. Guests
enjoy this green rooftop, overlooking the city’s historic architecture, for
private meetings and social events. The vegetative mats of the garden are
highly engineered to provide a cooling effect for the building and by adding a
layer of insulation to the building we are able to help reduce energy loss. |
| | The Courtyard
The newest venue to Charley Creek Inn, The Courtyard, opened in
2017. This outdoor space offers a fireplace and stage for live performances
providing a unique, tranquil atmosphere for birthday parties, company parties,
business meetings, religious retreats, anniversary celebrations, weddings and
bridal and baby showers. |
| | Ridenour Conference Room
Ridenour
Conference Room is a traditional meeting room, appropriate for small company or
church groups, adjacent to the 2nd floor Mezzanine. It is named
after Jim Ridenour, a Wabash native and 1960 graduate of Wabash High School. Jim
served as Director of the National Park Service under President George Bush,
Sr., from 1989 to 1993 and as Director of the Indiana Department of National
Resources under Indiana Governor Bob Orr from 1981 to 1989. During the Vietnam War, Jim was the
Detachment Commander of the Highland Medics attached to the 71st
Evacuation Hospital at Pleiku Air Base, Vietnam. As
an Indiana University Professor from 1993 to 2002, Jim established the Eppley
Institute of Parks and Public Lands in honor of his late uncle Garrett Eppley
of Wabash. Dr. Garrett Eppley and Jim
Ridenour were inducted into the Indiana Conservation Hall of Fame in September
2010. |
| | Richard E. Ford Dining Room
Named after local philanthropist and historic preservation aficionado Richard E.
Ford, of the Ford Meter Box family, who bought the building in 2007 and
renovated it to perfection, the Richard E. Ford Dining Room is a wine-themed
event space ideal for company parties, meetings and various other social
events. |
| | Virginia Ford Mezzanine Lobby
The
Virginia Ford Mezzanine Lobby is a common architectural feature for hotels
designed in the early 1900s—it is an actual extension of the Lobby below.
Before the introduction of televisions, air conditioning, laptops, and
smartphones, people went down to the lobbies to talk, read, play cards, or
socialize; they retired to their rooms only to sleep. Nowadays this area is
ideal for its original possible—to host various social events. |
| The Gatsby Room
What better name to call the semi-private dining room inside
Twentythan the F. Scott Fitzgerald
masterpiece The Great Gatsby which
was written in the 1920s. This space provides the intimacy desired for
rehearsal dinners, company parties, family reunions, graduation parties, and
other celebrations. Due to its
semi-private design and proximity to restaurant Twenty, the Gatsby Room is
available for breakfast, lunch, and dinner events only. |
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