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- Hygeia Hotel: 1895
- ... circa 1895. "Boat landing at Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
Razed by the Feds This, the second Hygeia Hotel, was torn down in 1902 after the feds took the land back. Its neighbor, ...
Posted by Dave - 04/25/2016 - 11:00am -
- Fairview Hotel: 1916
- Washington circa 1916. "Fairview Hotel, 1st Street and Florida Avenue." The proprietor is former slave and ... the city wanted to tear down the, um, stately Fairview Hotel. I can't imagine this was seriously a room for rent, unless it's just the ... Post, September 3, 1916.
PLEAD FOR QUAINT HOTEL
Hundred Neighbors Sign a Petition
To Save Sutherland's ...
Posted by Dave - 08/27/2012 - 1:21pm -
- Hotel Pontchartrain: 1907
- The Hotel Pontchartrain in Detroit circa 1907. By the mid-teens the hotel had been topped off with a huge mansard roof that added five floors ... is "dressed up" back in those days.
The Pontch The Hotel Pontchartrain stood on the southeast corner of Woodward Ave. (foreground) ...
Posted by Dave - 08/20/2012 - 9:54am -
- Halcyon Hotel: 1912
- January 29, 1912. "Halcyon Hotel, 12th Street and Avenue B, Miami, Florida." 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... size.
Gone But what a replacement! The Halcyon Hotel was never particularly profitable. It lasted from 1910 to 1939 and was ... Alfred I. Dupont Building. Here is a period postcard.
Hotel Halcyon - 1902-1939 Lots of great pictures of the Hotel Halcyon here ...
Posted by Dave - 07/23/2012 - 11:18am -
- Park Avenue Hotel: 1905
- ... edifice opened in April 1878 as the Working-Women's Hotel , only to close eight weeks later due to an acute case of insolvency. Reopened as the Park Avenue Hotel, the cast-iron marvel at 34th Street lasted until 1924, when it was ...
Posted by Dave - 04/17/2014 - 10:19am -
- Square Hotel: 1910
- Portland, Maine, circa 1910. "Congress Square Hotel, Congress Street and Forest Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, ... no vanishing point in the vertical direction, making the hotel look more imposing.
This is doable with a view camera by some ...
Posted by Dave - 10/05/2020 - 12:28pm -
- Hotel Secor Fireproof: 1909
- Toledo, Ohio, circa 1909. "Hotel Secor, Jefferson Avenue and Superior Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... The Brickbuilder and Architectural Monthly, 1909.
Hotel Secor — Toledo.
George S. Mills, Architect.
...
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The architectural terra cotta used in the Hotel Secor … was furnished by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company.
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Posted by Dave - 08/15/2012 - 4:16pm -
- Hotel Chalfonte: 1907
- The Jersey Shore circa 1907. "Hotel Chalfonte and Boardwalk, Atlantic City." The 10-story Chalfonte was ... so many Monopoly men in one place? "I'd like to build a hotel, please."
And on the right is Haddon Hall, where my family used to ... from Haddon Hall: Steeplechase Pier: 1905.
Grand Hotel Isn't that a beautiful place? Just grand!
(The Gallery, Atlantic ...
Posted by Dave - 08/09/2012 - 2:41pm -
- The Corridor: 1898
- Put-In Bay, Ohio, circa 1898. "Hotel Victory corridor." A door slammed. The maid screamed. 8x10 inch glass ... full size.
The Shining Welcome to the Overlook Hotel.
A beautiful resort hotel in its day. Too bad there are not more of these types of hotels left. ...
Posted by Dave - 08/02/2012 - 7:42pm -
- Murphy's Hotel: 1905
- Richmond, Virginia, circa 1905. "Murphy's Hotel." Also seen here . 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit ... also seen in this post . - Dave]
Murphy's Hotel What can go wrong here does go wrong here.
"Sample Room" ...
Posted by Dave - 08/04/2018 - 5:00pm -
- Hoy's Hotel: 1901
- ... N.W., east side, looking north from D Street with Hoy's Hotel on the corner and the U.S. Patent Office building at the end of the ... is complete The sign painter put a period after: Hoy's Hotel, Pool Room, and Hoy's Hotel Bar. Either he was a stickler for grammar, or ...
Posted by Dave - 02/20/2024 - 1:38pm -
- The Hotel Essex: 1906
- Boston circa 1906. "Atlantic Avenue elevated at Hotel Essex (Terminal Hotel)." Completed in 1900, now the Plymouth Rock Building. 8x10 glass ...
Posted by Dave - 02/09/2024 - 4:53pm -
- Hotel Occidental: 1920
- ... Washington, D.C., circa 1920. Gustav Buchholz's Occidental hotel and restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue. Just out of frame to the left ... seen a few posts back. Rising on the right is the Willard Hotel. View full size.
The Occidental. My parents went there all the ...
Posted by Dave - 08/23/2012 - 5:40pm -
- Ponce de Leon Hotel: 1897
- St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1897. "Ponce de Leon Hotel -- Front view and entrance." Railroad magnate Henry Flagler's coquina ... View full size.
Still lovely What a beauty this hotel is and how nice to see that it is still there; it's enough to make me ...
Posted by Dave - 04/10/2013 - 4:42pm -
- Hotel Cadillac: 1914
- Detroit, Michigan, circa 1914. "Hotel Cadillac." Plus a variation on the 8:17 jeweler's clock sign. 8x10 glass ... That rectangular structure rising above the Hotel Cadillac almost looks like the UN Building.
[I can understand why ... heat control. - Dave]
A bit of updating to the old Hotel Cadillac - View Larger Map
LOL The guy walking ...
Posted by Dave - 08/15/2012 - 3:06pm -
- Throck and the Kats: 1921
- ... a designer and painter of party backdrops for a beachfront hotel. Unlike the conventional artist, "Throck" uses gallon jugs of paint and ... signed his name. Unless he dashed it off as Throck on the hotel register. The article explains how he took a $50 bet and turned it into ...
Posted by Dave - 09/04/2024 - 4:19pm -
- Hotel Fontenelle: 1938
- November 1938. "Hotel Fontenelle, social center of Omaha, Nebraska." Medium format acetate ... a parking lot next to the Hruska Federal Courthouse.
Hotel Fontenelle I've always had a soft spot for that place.
Too Upscale? I wonder if the Hotel Fontenelle was too pricey for John Vachon's budget? We might not get a ...
Posted by Dave - 08/07/2020 - 1:18pm -
- The Plazas: 1907
- Manhattan circa 1907. "New York, N.Y. -- Plaza Hotel, Grand Army Plaza and W. 58th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... extending to 58th Street, directly across from the Plaza Hotel. This property is recognized as the largest private residence ever ...
Posted by Dave - 10/18/2024 - 6:11pm -
- Hotel Manhattan: 1904
- New York circa 1904. "Hotel Manhattan, 42nd Street." Another architectural view with many ... two in one day: here the "KODAKS" awning next door to the hotel, and earlier the "Camera Supplies" etc. sign on a building by the Dudley ...
Forty-Second Street According to Emporis the Hotel Manhattan was at East 42nd and Madison. It was converted into an ...
Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 3:34pm -
- Hotel Mary-Etta: c. 1964
- This is the Fairbury, Nebraska hotel where I grew up. Our apartment was on the top floor in the corner. This ...
Posted by DanV - 04/19/2010 - 7:05am -
- One-Star Hotel: 1939
- ... by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
Well, the Hotel survived The gas station, not so much.
Carson & Thornton ... the image, despite no directions previously shown), the "Hotel" looks to have had 3-4 rooms, tops. About 30-35 feet wide, about 60-70 ...
Posted by Dave - 10/23/2018 - 5:22pm -
- Atlantic Hotel: 1906
- Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1906. "Atlantic Hotel, Granby Street." Demolished 1970s. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, ... Granby and Main View Larger Map
The hotel was located here where the refuse truck is parked. The Atlantic was built ...
Posted by Dave - 02/20/2013 - 3:05pm -
- Hôtel de Ville: 1900
- ... negative, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.
Hotel De Ville de Montreal Interestingly enough, 119 years later Montreal ...
Posted by Dave - 10/16/2019 - 11:43am -
- Hotel Wendell: 1910
- ... Pittsfield, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "North Street and Hotel Wendell from the park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit ... View full size.
Two remain at least
Hotel Wendell is gone ...replaced by the parking ramp at left, but the two ...
Posted by Dave - 01/13/2021 - 12:09pm -
- Pe-ru-na Cures Catarrh: 1903
- ... and a little burned sugar for color.
The Newer Hotel Brunswick The Hotel Brunswick that was built on the site is now known as the Grand Madison ...
Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 8:25pm -
- A Small Hotel: 1925
- ... avenue and C Street Southeast A brochure from the hotel, click for slightly bigger:
Apartment Hotel
Washington Post, August 1924.
George Washington Inn ...
Posted by Dave - 01/29/2015 - 10:31am -
- Hotel Rueger: 1913
- 1913. Richmond, Virginia. "Hotel Rueger -- Bank and Ninth Streets." Now the Commonwealth Hotel. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View ... be around a while: it's currently the Commonwealth Suites Hotel.
Twists of history It started in 1846 as Louis Rueger’s saloon. ...
Posted by Dave - 02/10/2023 - 12:20pm -
- Park Hotel: 1905
- Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, circa 1905. "Park Hotel." An interesting cast of characters in less than parklike surroundings. ... a train? Looks like there are short stairs midway down the hotel's hallways where the building addition starts, as the windows don't match ...
Posted by Dave - 08/20/2012 - 4:21pm -
- Two-Bit Hotel (Colorized): 1921
- ... Colorized from a Shorpy original .
The Lanier Hotel & Fuerst Bros. Restaurant, 15 Bowery NYC
Colourisation from a ...
Proprietors Alex and Sigmund Fuerst stand outside their hotel and associated restaurant in what is now modern day Chinatown in New York ...
Posted by photojacker - 01/04/2013 - 7:41pm -
- Hotel Poinsettia: 1915
- ... spread across the hot sands? Where's my time machine?
Hotel Dunlop
I've found nothing on Hotel Poinsettia, but I have researched a bit about Hotel Dunlop, which stood ...
Posted by Dave - 07/17/2012 - 10:35pm -