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PROVIDENCE — Top-floor dining will be returning to the Providence Biltmore hotel downtown, and the exterior glass elevator will be brought back into service to take diners there in style.

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To put in a temporary elevator like the ones used by construction companies would cost at least $35,000, he said. Installing a second permanent elevator would be about $200,000.

The hotel's previous top-floor restaurant was named L'Apogee. It closed in 1986 and the space was converted for use as a function room. The Biltmore opened in 1922.