This piqued his interest in establishing one, thereby purchasing a hard granite hilltop called Bacon Hill as the site for his new Raymond Hotel. The dynamiting and grading off of  of the hilltop came to more than twice Raymond's estimates, and he turned to his father Emmons Raymond for assistance.
The desire to build prompted him to acquire a specific site, which was Bacon Hill, a hard granite hilltop. The project's cost exceeded initial estimates, leading him to seek assistance from his father, Emmons Raymond.