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The Second Renaissance Revival-style Vail Hotel in Pueblo, Colorado

The Second Renaissance Revival-style Vail Hotel in Pueblo, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Named after Pueblo newspaperman John E. Vail, the hotel constructed in 1910 was considered to be the most modern hotel west of Chicago... More

The 1893 New Windsor Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, now a home for indigent elderly people

The 1893 New Windsor Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, now a home for indigen...

Phoenix pioneer and businessman A.D. Walsh had a stucco-facade hotel built in the corner of what is now known as 6th Avenue and Adams Street and named it the 6th Avenue Hotel. In 1925, the hotel was renamed the... More

Elaborate doorway of the Second Renaissance Revival-style Hotel Vail in Pueblo, Colorado

Elaborate doorway of the Second Renaissance Revival-style Hotel Vail i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Named after Pueblo newspaperman John E. Vail, the hotel constructed in 1910 was considered to be the most modern hotel west of Chicago... More

The Old Stone House, or Heimburger House, which was actually a hotel that was a popular stop along the National Road, at Roney's Point in Ohio County, east of Wheeling, West Virginia

The Old Stone House, or Heimburger House, which was actually a hotel t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. August Heimberger first rented-out the hotel in 1869 and kept it for 22 years. His wife took over on his death in 1889 and continued t... More

The old Spencer Hotel, now the Lowe Hotel, in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River in West Virginia

The old Spencer Hotel, now the Lowe Hotel, in Point Pleasant, a city o...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1901 and originally named in honor of J.S. Spencer, a local judge and steamboat-company operator, the hotel was operated by t... 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

Colorful hotel and bar in the tiny town of Alma in Park County, Colorado

Colorful hotel and bar in the tiny town of Alma in Park County, Colora...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. At an elevation of approximately 10,578 feet, it is the highest incorporated municipality in the United States with permanent resident... More

Sign above the entrance to the 1906 Frederick Building, once the old Hotel Frederick, in downtown Huntington, West Virginia

Sign above the entrance to the 1906 Frederick Building, once the old H...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The 1896 Midland Hotel building, now (as of 2014) home to a collectibles businss in downtown Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

The 1896 Midland Hotel building, now (as of 2014) home to a collectibl...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

The late-1875 Becker Hotel, and a neighboring building featuring a faded vintage Coca-Cola sign, in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

The late-1875 Becker Hotel, and a neighboring building featuring a fad...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Becker was built tocompete with even older Inter Ocean Hotel. Its LeBarronÆsRestaurant served fine foods imported by rail from bot... More

The Wyman Hotel in Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary silver-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities

The Wyman Hotel in Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Wyman Building, constructed of native red sandstone, was completed in 1902 by German immigrant Louis Wyman. He hand-carved the bur... More

The 1893 Rio Grande Southern Hotel, a true "railroad hotel" and the first and finest hostelry in Dolores, an old railroad town served by the Rio Grande Southern line in Montezuma County in far-southwest Colorado

The 1893 Rio Grande Southern Hotel, a true "railroad hotel" and the fi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Future president Theodore Roosevelt and western writer Zane Grey slept there, as did other travelers and officials of the railroad. Th... More

The Higgins Hotel, which opened in 1916 in Glenrock, Wyoming

The Higgins Hotel, which opened in 1916 in Glenrock, Wyoming

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

The 1896 Midland Hotel building, now (as of 2014) home to a collectibles businss in downtown Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

The 1896 Midland Hotel building, now (as of 2014) home to a collectibl...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Sign for the old Hotel Cascade in Klamath Falls, a small city in southern Oregon, in which, curiously, there are no waterfalls! The hotel is now (2018) an apartment building

Sign for the old Hotel Cascade in Klamath Falls, a small city in south...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More

"V" stained-glass detail on the front facade of the Second Renaissance Revival-style Vail Hotel in Pueblo, Colorado

"V" stained-glass detail on the front facade of the Second Renaissance...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Named after Pueblo newspaperman John E. Vail, the hotel constructed in 1910 was considered to be the most modern hotel west of Chicago... More

Old hotels, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Old hotels, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Hotels. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph a... More

The 1931 Del Rio Hotel in Dolores, an old railroad town served by the Rio Grande Southern line in Montezuma County in far-southwest Colorado

The 1931 Del Rio Hotel in Dolores, an old railroad town served by the ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The big hotel included a ballroom and large restaurant that served famous guests such as silent film star Clara Bow, passing through t... More

Old hotel building in the old mining boomtown of Jerome, on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley in Yavapai County, Arizona

Old hotel building in the old mining boomtown of Jerome, on Cleopatra ...

In the heyday of its rich copper mines in the 1920s, more than 10,000 people found a place to live there. By 2010, the fulltime population was 444, but it fills with tourists many days of the year. Title, date ... More

The old Shaniko Hotel in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town but that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

The old Shaniko Hotel in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is larg...

The town was built, beginning in 1898, to serve a railroad that shipped thousands of sheep to market from surrounding farms in the Central Oregon Valley. Title, date and keywords based on information provided b... More

Sign for the old Dreamland mobile-home park in Phoenix, Arizona

Sign for the old Dreamland mobile-home park in Phoenix, Arizona

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... 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

The old, colorful, and as of 2015, abandoned, Avon Hotel in Silverton, the seat of San Juan County, Colorado, a legendary silver-rush town of the 19th Century and, at 9,313 feet above sea level, one of America's highest cities

The old, colorful, and as of 2015, abandoned, Avon Hotel in Silverton,...

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

The old Hancock Hotel in Hancock, Vermont

The old Hancock Hotel in Hancock, Vermont

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-9). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More