Photograph of the St. Nicholas Hotel on Locust Street between Eighth and Ninth Streets. The building was originally designed by Louis Sullivan and built in 1893. It was redesigned and expanded after a fire in 1905 and ultimately demolished in 1974. It was later known as the Victoria Building.
This Boehl street scene photo was taken looking west on Washington Avenue at Sixth Street in 1891. The building on the northwest corner at right is the Lindell Hotel, which was rebuilt in 1874 after having been destroyed by fire. Spurred by an offer of $100,000 from Washington Avenue businessmen, who felt a major hotel would encourage commerce on the street, reconstruction was started on the Lindell. It opened in 1874 and, as the businessmen had hoped, Sixth and Washington became one of the busiest intersections in the city.1
