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Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett of St. Louis and built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company, Adolp... More

Patio at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Patio at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett of St. Louis and built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company, Adolp... More

The historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

The historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... More

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... More

Old wagon piled high with pumpkins, a sign of autumn, at the Wentworth-by-the-Sea historic hotel in New Castle, New Hampshire, next to Portsmouth

Old wagon piled high with pumpkins, a sign of autumn, at the Wentworth...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

The historic Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, one of the first to employ an "atrium style" with entire floors exposed to the lobby

The historic Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, one of the first to employ ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1892 of sandstone and red granite, it was named for its original owner, Henry C. Brown, who had originally homesteaded Denver... More

The Blennerhassett Hotel in Parkersburg, West Virginia

The Blennerhassett Hotel in Parkersburg, West Virginia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Queen Anne-style building opened in 1889, when money from oil and natural gas flooded into Parkersburg and the town quickly became... More

Grand lobby of the landmark Marcus Whitman Hotel, built in 1927 and still (in 2018) welcoming guests in Walla Walla, Washington, once the largest city in a vast region when Washington was a U.S. territory and now an agricultural (especially wheat) and winemaking hub of Eastern Washington

Grand lobby of the landmark Marcus Whitman Hotel, built in 1927 and st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett of St. Louis and built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company, Adolp... More

The 1922 Fairplay Hotel, which replaced two earlier hotels that burned, in Fairplay, Colorado

The 1922 Fairplay Hotel, which replaced two earlier hotels that burned...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett of St. Louis and built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company, Adolp... More

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... More

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Exterior detail of the Driskill, a venerable Austin, Texas, hotel

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Romanesque-style building, completed in 1886 was conceived and built by Col. Jesse Driskill, a cattleman who spent his fortune co... More

The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, a town on the eastern edge of Rocky Mountain National Park in north-central Colorado

The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, a town on the eastern edge of Rocky M...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 140-room Colonial Revival hotel was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley (co-founder of the company that built the early "Stanley Steame... More

Lobby of the historic Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. The hotel, one of the first to employ an "atrium style" with entire floors exposed to the lobby, was built in 1892 of sandstone and red granite

Lobby of the historic Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. The hotel, one of ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1892 of sandstone and red granite, it was named for its original owner, Henry C. Brown, who had originally homesteaded Denver... More

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was for several years the tallest building in the state. Built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch company, Adolphus Busch, in a ... More

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett of St. Louis and built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company, Adolp... More

Entrance canopy at the historic Ashland Springs Hotel in Ashland, Oregon

Entrance canopy at the historic Ashland Springs Hotel in Ashland, Oreg...

Originally called the Lithia Springs Hotel, the beaux arts-style landmark hotel opened in 1925, when tourism was booming thanks to the popularity of the Chautauqua lecture circuit and Ashland's nearby Lithia Sp... More

The 1892 Italianate building housing the El Rancho Tavern and Central Hotel on Main Avenue in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The 1892 Italianate building housing the El Rancho Tavern and Central ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

Details from the Magnolia Building, home of the boutique Magnolia Hotel, in downtown Dallas, Texas

Details from the Magnolia Building, home of the boutique Magnolia Hote...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classical or neoclassical building, architecture design, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cactus garden at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Cactus garden at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, A...

Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More

Reception desk in the lobby of the Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

Reception desk in the lobby of the Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 durin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

A block of Main Street that includes the 1886 Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

A block of Main Street that includes the 1886 Beaumont Hotel in Ouray,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In its day, the Beaumont was one of the grandest hotels in western Colorado. It was one of the first hotels in America to be wired for... More

Towers of the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Towers of the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1893 Italianate structure was established by silver magnate and banker Walter Devereux. Edward Lippincott Tilton designed the buil... More

Lobby mural at the landmark Marcus Whitman Hotel, built in 1927 and still (in 2018) welcoming guests in Walla Walla, Washington, once the largest city in a vast region when Washington was a U.S. territory and now an agricultural (especially wheat) and winemaking hub of Eastern Washington

Lobby mural at the landmark Marcus Whitman Hotel, built in 1927 and st...

Mural artist: Jeffrey J. Hill, 2011. Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M.... More

The Sheridan Inn hotel in Sheridan, Wyoming

The Sheridan Inn hotel in Sheridan, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The hotel was designed by the architect Thomas R. Kimball of Omaha, Nebraska, in 1893, it was constructed by the Chicago, Burlington, ... More

Courtyards at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Courtyards at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Ariz...

Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More

Grand lobby of the landmark Marcus Whitman Hotel, built in 1927 and still (in 2018) welcoming guests in Walla Walla, Washington, once the largest city in a vast region when Washington was a U.S. territory and now an agricultural (especially wheat) and winemaking hub of Eastern Washington

Grand lobby of the landmark Marcus Whitman Hotel, built in 1927 and st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Reflection of splendor at the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Reflection of splendor at the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and re...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The signature building at the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

The signature building at the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and re...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Walkway at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Walkway at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

A quiet corner of the Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

A quiet corner of the Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining bo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Detail of the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by Thomas P. Barnett of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett of St. Louis and built by the founder of the Anheuser-Busch Company, Adolp... More

The 1892 building (right) constructed as the Central Hotel and now housing the El Rancho Tavern on Main Avenue in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado

The 1892 building (right) constructed as the Central Hotel and now hou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. The city is... More

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado

The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater con... More

The Sheridan Inn hotel in Sheridan, Wyoming

The Sheridan Inn hotel in Sheridan, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The hotel was designed by the architect Thomas R. Kimball of Omaha, Nebraska, in 1893, it was constructed by the Chicago, Burlington, ... More

The 1880 United States Hotel building in the historic district of Jacksonville, Oregon

The 1880 United States Hotel building in the historic district of Jack...

Jacksonville is an historic gold-mining town that avoided decline into a ghost town even though the railroad bypassed it for nearby Medford in the 1880s in southern Oregon. It is now (2018) a flourishing touris... More

Library at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Library at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More

Large decorative lamp at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Large decorative lamp at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in T...

Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More

Fountain the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Fountain the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The signature building at the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

The signature building at the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and re...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The New Sheridan Hotel in Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado

The New Sheridan Hotel in Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The hotel name is accurate but not exactly what you'd think: the "new" reference dates all the way back to 1895, when the "old," wood... More

The 1909 Brunswick Hotel and adjacent buildings in downtown Kingman, Arizona

The 1909 Brunswick Hotel and adjacent buildings in downtown Kingman, A...

The Brunswick Hotel is named for the Canadian province of New Brunswick, original home of one of the hotel's owners. The hotel featured hot water heaters, electric hot and cold baths, gas lights, sanitary plumb... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The St. James Hotel, the only surviving hotel in the downtown historic district, Selma, Alabama

The St. James Hotel, the only surviving hotel in the downtown historic...

Built in 1837 atop the banks of the Alabama River. The hotel was reborn in 1997 after a $6 million restoration that brought together a group of investors and the community of Selma. One of the last riverfront h... More

The landmark building and tower of the Marcus Whitman Hotel, built in 1927 and still (in 2018) welcoming guests in Walla Walla, Washington, once the largest city in a vast region when Washington was a U.S. territory and now an agricultural (especially wheat) and winemaking hub of Eastern Washington

The landmark building and tower of the Marcus Whitman Hotel, built in ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

A block of Main Street that includes the 1886 Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

A block of Main Street that includes the 1886 Beaumont Hotel in Ouray,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In its day, the Beaumont was one of the grandest hotels in western Colorado. It was one of the first hotels in America to be wired for... More

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Aerial view of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Col...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The notable solid-white Italian marble staircase in the historic Gadsden Hotel in Douglas, a small border city with Mexico in the southeastern corner of Arizona

The notable solid-white Italian marble staircase in the historic Gadsd...

The hotel, which opened in 1907, was named after the 1854 Gadsden Purchase, an 1854 treaty negotiated by U.S. Ambassador to Mexico James Gadsden, that added almost 30,000 acres in what is now Arizona and New Me... More

The 1886 Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado

The 1886 Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community hi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In its day, the Beaumont was one of the grandest hotels in western Colorado. It was one of the first hotels in America to be wired for... More

Lobby of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Lobby of the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Sunrise over the lake the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Its Italian Renaissance-style main building was constructed in 1918; others on the sprawling property decades later

Sunrise over the lake the Broadmoor Hotel, a historic hotel and resort...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

The Bishop Victorian Hotel, built in 1891 in Port Townsend, a small, picturesque town at the northeast corner of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula

The Bishop Victorian Hotel, built in 1891 in Port Townsend, a small, p...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

Cactus garden at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, Arizona

Cactus garden at the Arizona Inn, a historic resort hotel in Tucson, A...

Built in 1930-31 by Isabella Greenway who became Arizona's first female representative to the U.S. Congress in 1932, the Spanish Colonial Revival main building was designed by Tucson architect Merritt Starkweat... More