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The Rise and Fall of the Dome
The Minnewaska, aka The Dome, played host to no small quantity of characters over the course of her life. Over the course of this blog you’ll be introduced to your fair share of them. Here then is a...
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Life and Death Of and In the Astoria
The Astoria Apartments…the advantages of the city’s tourist hotels with the quiet of the residence section. Plus, at no extra charge to you, grewsome murder.read more
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St Angelo Hotel - 237 North Grand Avenue
The next time you take in a show at the Ahmanson Theater or the Mark Taper Forum, take a minute and think about the St Angelo Hotel. For 70 years the impressive Victorian structure dominated the...
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The Richelieu Hotel - 142 South Grand Avenue
For nearly seventy years the Richelieu Hotel resided next door to the better known Melrose. The pair of Queen Anne Victorian buildings were two of the most stunning structures on the Hill, but the...
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Hotel Trenton, 427 South Olive Street
The Hotel Trenton, seven stories of sober brick laced with fire escapes, its yawning central maw somewhere between a gate of hell and a jaunty fireman's doorway, lurked low on Bunker Hill for many...
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