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Title: Coridore Southern Hotel
Description: Photograph of a billiards room at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis. Corinthian columns support large beams across the ceiling.

Title: Chestnut fr. 4th West
Date: 1872
Description: This image of the Planter's Hotel matches another looking north on Fourth Street in 1872. By 1874, the hotel was renovated and expanded.

Title: Chase Hotel
Date: 1972
Description: Photograph of the Chase Hotel.

Title: Southern Hotel Dining Room
Description: Photograph of the dining area in the Southern Hotel in St. Louis. It features wooden tables and chairs with white table clothes. Gilded Corinthian pilasters and ornate plasterwork on the ceiling.

Title: Hotel Jefferson
Description: Photograph of the Hotel Jefferson looking north along Tucker Boulevard. Automobiles and horse-drawn wagons are visible on Tucker Boulevard. The intersection of Tucker Boulevard and Washington Avenue is visible in the background. The Ferguson McKinney Dry Goods Company is visible beyond the intersection., The Hotel Jefferson is now the vacant Jefferson Arms apartment building. The Ferguson McKinney Dry Goods Company is now the Bogen Lofts.

Title: Parlor at the Southern Hotel
Description: Photograph of the parlor of the Southern Hotel in St. Louis. The carpeted room features plush wooden furniture, curtained entrances, a fireplace, gilded wallpaper, and electric chandeliers.

Title: Turkish Den. Planter's Hotel
Description: 9.5x7.75 in photograph of the Turkish Den inside the Planter's Hotel in St. Louis. The room contained various chairs, pillows, vases, and ornate architectural details.

Title: Saint Louis Star and Hotel Jefferson
Description: Photograph of the St. Louis Star newspaper building and Hotel Jefferson along North Tucker Boulevard. Horse-drawn wagons, automobiles and pedestrians are visible on Tucker Boulevard., The St. Louis Star building was at the Northwest corner of the intersection of Olive Boulevard and North Tucker Boulevard.

Title: St. Louis de Ville - Poolside
Date: 1963-07-01, 1963-07-05
Description: "Guests of the St. Louis de Ville Motor Hotel, 4483 Lindell bl., relax at the sunken swimming plaza. The $5,000,000 motor hotel opened for business Monday. The de Ville is owned by Melvin and Harold Dubinsky, St. Louis real estate investors, and Paul Kapelow, a New Orleans investor and construction magnate.

Title: St. Louis de Ville Hotel - Translation
Date: 1973-05-23, 1973-05-27
Description: "Several languages come in handy as Joseph Balderacchi of Italy (right) explains table arrangements to Pedro Fonseca (center) in Spanish and then translates into French for benefit of Andre Bigot."

Title: Maryland Gardens Apartments - Fairmont Hotel exterior, to be renovated
Date: 1976-07-16, 1976-07-16
Description: "Another Strauss total rehabilitation contract is the old Fairmont Hotel, No. 7 Maryland Plaza, where 99 hotel rooms will be converted into 63 modern apartments at the cost of $1 million. Rents will average $164 a moth for studio apartments and $206 for one-bedrooms. Owner is Alfonso J. Cervantes, former mayor of St. Louis who has undertaken redevelopment of a combination residential-commercial

Title: St. Louis de Ville Motor Hotel
Date: 1963-04-19, 1973-04-23
Description: "Nearing completion on Lindell boulevard at Taylor avenue are two projects. Building in the foreground is the St. Louis de Ville luxury motel hotel, which is being built east of Taylor. Beyond the motel is the new Lindell Terrace Apartments, west of Taylor."

Title: Lindell Hotel St. Louis
Date: 1891, 1965-03-14
Description: 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

Title: Gateway Hotel Relief
Date: 1975-06-03
Description: A relief depicting a lamb and a satyr on the outside of the Gateway Hotel.

Title: M-552 Scudder, John Missouri Hotel Lease Indenture
Date: 1836-11-15
Description: Manuscript lease indenture between John Scudder and Benjamin L. Turnbull to lease the Missouri Hotel in St. Louis. The manuscript, dated November 15, 1836, contains witness signatures and an inventory of hotel goods, including feather-beds, lamps, linens, and a Franklin stove. The document indicates the property will be used as a tavern or house of entertainment, and a list of payments is

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