This is a quite tall building, classically planned and detailed, and also with a lantern on top in the manner of 17th C. English architect Christopher Wrenn. The lantern on the top is not unlike that atop the north tower of Market Square, Lake…
A few people sit on the porch of Hotel Half-Day. One person prepares to cross the street under the fine beer sign. In the background, there appears to be a warehouse. Several trees surround the hotel.
Hotel Half Day was possibly owned by J.F. Hornberger. A gate in the front and on the store sign tells that they have fine beer. On the far right, a few people stand next to a person on a horse drawn carriage.
This letter in the envelope shown accompanied the five small photographs of 1917 U.S. Army Hospital train cars sent by Maj. Gen'l. Hugh F. Foster, Jr. to Arthur D. Dubin, Highland Park, IL, in 1986.
There are two exterior views and three interior…
This design of Cass Gilbert's, appearing in the American Architectural League's 25th annual exhibition volume, 1910, shows influence of Christopher Wrenn's classic Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich (England, near London), 17th C. This, in turn,…