Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1908. "Hotel Westminster." Equipped with a bevy of bay windows as well as the de ... Take a month of Sundays.
A little off the top This hotel was famously subjected to some trimming after it was found to exceed ... decoration at the top was beautiful. Ironically, after the hotel was demolished, the John Hancock tower was built on that site -- it's 60 ...
... the delicacies from (left to right) Theophile Homberger, Hotel Hamilton; Eddie Weber, Shoreham Hotel; Joseph Cattaneo, Hotel Washington; Fritz Meissner, Hay-Adams; Abraham ...
Detroit, Michigan, circa 1912. "Hotel Pontchartrain, Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument." Along with the Flatiron ... find a thing about it! The only things I find are about a hotel in New Orleans, and one in Detroit which was built in the 1920s. I'm ... know why we can't do that here!
[This short-lived hotel, whose main deficiency was a dearth of private bathrooms, was demolished ...
... of Billy Sunday...
Well, probably not, but I love the hotel name.
Photographer's Vantage Point The photographer's vantage ... Well, you can stay there, but I'm booking a room at the Hotel Wilmat, they have 'ROOMS'
(The Gallery, D.C., Harris + Ewing, ...
... of 14th. The large building on the far left is the Willard Hotel. All the buildings here have been replaced a couple of times--currently the J.W. Marriott Hotel dominates this end of the block. Shorpy previously brought us a scene of ...
Atlantic City circa 1911. "Hotel Strand." And a vista of manicured monochrome greenery. 8x10 inch glass ... "Hey Charlie, I lined up a couple of hoers back at the hotel."
Replace your divots! Looks like the ghosted gent on the left is ... Atlantic City Hilton.
Fireproof Fun in the Sun This hotel was at Pennsylvania Avenue (now Danny Thomas Blvd) on the Boardwalk, ...
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The Willard Looks like the newly built Willard Hotel (completed 1904) in the background. I guess this photo was taken as our ... NW near the northwest corner of 15th and E. The Willard Hotel is in the background as are the smaller buildings that used to be where ...
Florida circa 1900. "Hotel Royal Poinciana, Palm Beach." Shown here is the merest sliver of Henry Flagler's gigantic hotel, at one time the largest wood-frame structure in the world. Detroit ... The long-gone Royal Poinciana was the kind of grand resort hotel that Billy Wilder had in mind for the locale of "Some Like It Hot," but ...
... far left is part of a historic building, the old St. Louis Hotel, opened as a grand hotel in 1835, for a time also known as the Royal Hotel, served as the State ...
... at an unseen window on the back of the current Casa Monica Hotel). St. Augustine is an amazing little place with the most fascinating ... churches and Flagler's house in St. Augustine. The Cordova Hotel was not built by Flagler, but he bought it a few years after it opened. ...
... in the background?
[The big building is the Willard Hotel. - Dave]
AH-OOGA. Where do I get me one of them horns?
... this photo. Thanks to Dave's identification, the Willard Hotel is located at 1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW, DC. Just down the road from the ...
... about Mount Clemens and this particular Bath House/ Hotel may be found here.
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Spa Town Doppelganger The architecture of this hotel reminds me very much of the former Orkney Springs Hotel in Orkney ...
... Landmarks include the Arcade Building at right, Hollenden Hotel and newspaper offices of the Cleveland Plain Dealer . 8x10 inch dry ... The Hollenden My parents and I stayed at the Hollenden Hotel in the summer of 1953. They were delegates to the Brotherhood of ...
... Furthermore, in that aerial photo I can clearly see the Hotel Fontenelle a few blocks to the west at 1806 Douglas and I can positively ... [You are correct about the location (my first guess, the Hotel Fontenelle, is on the wrong block). Which means our vantage point is the ...
... commercial exhibitor of a motion picture at his Trocadero Hotel in 1893. Wacke's hotel, a stalwart from Coney's early years located along a strip of cabarets ...
... Magnolia, Massachusetts." Completed in 1891, this resort hotel near Gloucester was destroyed by fire in 1907. 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... hotels staff.
Toilet Arrangements I grew up in a hotel that was built in 1906. Very few of our rooms had direct toilet access, ...
... Terrace This is the Sky Terrace rooftop restaurant of Hotel Washington at 515 15th Street NW. Elvis famously stayed in Suite 506 a ... It's being completely refurbished and will reopen as a "W" Hotel. That rooftop restaurant had a stunning view. Many movies scenes have ...
... Sansome Street." At the top of the hill is the Fairmont Hotel, seen in yesterday's post. Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
... Cathedral on the right at Grant Avenue and the Fairmont Hotel on the right at the top of the hill. They are the only buildings in this ...
1939. "St. James Hotel, Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. Building dates to circa 1840. Now market ... Wishes come true Success!
Open for business. The hotel was restored in 1997 and is open for business. Supposedly haunted.
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Flip-flop First the Brantley Hotel from 1837 until after the Civil War, then St. James Hotel until 1892, ...