Night audit

The night desk, already in order.

Evening book

14arrivals
6departures
18vacant
80
rooms
3
shifts
24
hour book
1924
opened
Sable HotelsCasa BrancaNorthlineLumen PostMerrowHalden

Three lamps

The house changes hands three times.

Hotel lobby in warm evening light

Evening

Fourteen arrivals, six still to leave. The lamp is amber.

A quiet hotel corridor

Night

The book thins. Three in, two out. The lamp cools.

An empty breakfast room in the morning

Dawn

The breakfast room is set. Twenty-two arrivals wait on the page.

The book, kept open.

80rooms in the house
3shifts on the lamp
1924the year the desk began