Structures of the type Hotel
Central National Bank Building (Apex Liquor Store), Washington DC
Date added:September 29, 2010
Built as the St. Marc Hotel in 1860. In 1887 the Central National Bank assumed ownership of the hotel and commissioned architect Alfred B. Mullett to design the addition on the west facade. The addition included the two corner towers.
The ST. MARC HOTEL was established in 1855 by John H. Semmes. It became one of the foremost hotels in Washington. Under Semmes' proprietorship, rooms at the ST. MARC rented for $1-$2 per night for a single room and $2-$3 for a double room. H. C. Bowers secured a lease from Semmes in 1879 after which he completely remodeled and refurnished the building. John F. Fitzgerald became the proprietor of the hotel in 1885 and remained with it until the building was purchased by The Central National Bank in 1887. A commercial guide to Washington published in 1887 noted the ST. MARC's "...elegant apportionments, fine cuisine, and unsurpassed location, being in close proximity to several lines of streetcars and the center of the business part of the city."
More...Colonial Hotel, Cape May New Jersey
Date added:November 12, 2009
I have very limited information on this hotel. It was built in 1894-1894. It is three stories plus attic and raised basement. It has octagonal towers with tent roofs that flank the entrance. It's roof is a mansard roof with gabled dormers. The south wing of the hotel was added in 1905.
More...Hotel Metropole & Broadway Theater, Denver Colorado
Date added:January 17, 2010
The Metropole was a significant 1890's luxury hotel, designed by an unrenowned architect from Chicago, Colonel J.W, Wood. It is distinguished by its Richardsonian Romanesque revival west facade and grand and theatrical presence in the streetscape.
Built in 1891, it was boasted by the Colorado Graphic as one of the first "fireproof" hotels in the country, employing hollow clay fired tile units for all partitions, floors, ceilings, and walls. Part of the hotel was the Broadway Theatre (heralded by the Colorado Graphic as the first fireproof theatre in the West), an ornate vaudeville showhouse, whose interior was decorated in East Indian themes. The Metropole was recognized as one of the three grand hotels in Denver at the turn of the century, along with the Windsor Hotel and Brown Palace Hotel.
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