The Karmann Library (UW-Platteville) has some . I can’t find the map online, but if IIRC the floor most people enter is the second floor. The floor above is the third floor (logically enough). the floor below is the ground floor (the library does sit on a hill, and I think you CAN enter on this floor but it definitely isn’t the main entrance.) There is a floor below (basement) too. There also a 4th floor, but the public can’t get to that from the 3rd floor, there was an enclodes outsode stairway (don’t rememeber how the elevators worked)
Brian
In Chinese (especially Cantonese), the number four is a near-homophone of the word for die, so that leads to many floor numbers being skipped in apartment towers, as described here (4th paragraph).
The Hilton in Port of Spain, Trinidad is built into the side of a hill with the lobby on the top floor and the numbers going up from 1 as you go down the hill.
I last stayed there around 2005. At the time, it looked like it was right out of a 1960s James Bond movie with shag carpet on the walls. Looking at the web site, it does not appear to have changed much in the last decade.
The (Toronto) condo building I used to live in was missing a 4th, 13th, 14th and 24th floor according to the building’s numbering system, but according to the city of Toronto those floors did exist. Likewise for the unit numbers on each floor. So the number on my door was 2016, but the official purchase documents said it was unit 1713.
My preferred solution to this is one I’ve seen in a few hotels. Have a bank of elevators and then you put in your floor and it tells you which elevator to get on. There are no actual floor buttons inside the elevator.
The first time I encountered that system it was confusing as hell.
First you had the inevitable security feature of having to stick your key-card into the reader.Then you had to key in your floor number within a couple seconds while reading the unfamiliar directions. After first realizing that that was even a requirement. I had to do that three times to get it right.
Then it says “Use elevator #3”. Where there’re no obvious signs which elevator is which. Then you have to wait for a couple of the wrong elevators to come and go first before getting on the right one. And inevitably somebody else unfamiliar with the process will jump onto your elevator and become confused at the no buttons inside the car then try to hold the door open while they figure out what to do. Of course this is in a big international city so the local language, my language, and the language of those confused folks are all different.
Which in turn implies the input screen needs to have comprehensive directions in every language commonly spoken by guests at that hotel. This hotel really goofed by having six elevators but just one card reader / input screen. You ended up with queue of confused users waiting to get to the reader. each of whom had to learn for themselves how to operate the darned thing.
In the abstract it seems a fine system. But since it’s a total inversion of the control system that’s been used for the last 100 years it takes a bit user of training. Which the front desks have so far not done at any of the places I’ve stayed.
There was a hotel in rural Vermont that (believe it was in White River) that was added on to over time. You’d be walking on a floor with room numbers in the 200s, and suddenly they’re 100s, or 500s, or whatever. Going up or down stairs just made it more confusing.
The first place I encountered it was at the Marriott at times square and they had a person there to help people with the elevator. The next place in Washington DC didn’t have an attendant but front desk made it clear on check-in how to use it and had a note they included with your room key.