Richelieu Hotel, Chicago
Inter Ocean, October 4, 1885
HOTEL RICHELIEU.
“America’s Finest European Hotel” Such is the Unhesitating Verdict of All.
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Inter Ocean, October 4, 1885
HOTEL RICHELIEU.
“America’s Finest European Hotel” Such is the Unhesitating Verdict of All.
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In 1885, Robert Rennert founded the enormous Rennert hotel which boasted six stories and 150 personal rooms. Inside, Rennert filled the hotel with elaborate decoration adding everything from marble and fresco, to the use of Edison’s electricity. The construction of the Rennert Hotel filled Baltimore city officials with hope and pride; through the opening of the hotel, Rennert sought to promote the growth of the city.
57 acres between 15th and 17th – Grand & Orleans Avenue. River vista, outdoor entertainment pavilion, picnic shelters, picnic areas, playground equipment, flower garden, tennis court, basketball court, kiddie play area, reflection pond, disc golf course, restrooms.
The Rainier Club is a private club in Seattle, Washington; it has been referred to as "Seattle's preeminent private club." Its clubhouse building, completed in 1904, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was founded in 1888 in what was then the Washington Territory (statehood came the following year). As of 2008, the club has 1,300 members.
Hotel at Wynyard that originally stood on the corner of Carrington and Margaret Streets, which published its own visitor's guide in 1879. The original Pfahlert's hotel building was sold and demolished in 1930 and the license transferred to premises in the former Arnott House at 50 Margaret Street, opposite Wynyard Square. The hotel ceased trading on 21 July 1972 and the building in Margaret Street was demolished.
On July 4, 1880, Corbin opened his new Oriental Hotel. This palacial resort was approximately two hundred yards east of the Picnic Pavilion, or roughly one thousand yards east of the Manhattan Hotel. The Oriental was Coney Island's flagship hotel and was one of the most technologically sophisticated and refined resorts in the United Stated when it opened.
The hotel was located in the present-day Manhattan Beach parking lot, spanning from approximately Jaffray Street to Langham Street....
The Mozambique Channel is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between the Southeast African countries of Madagascar and Mozambique. The channel is about 1,700 km (900 nmi; 1,100 mi) long and 419 km (226 nmi; 260 mi) across at its narrowest point, and reaches a depth of 3,292 m (10,801 ft) about 230 km (124 nmi; 143 mi) off the coast of Mozambique. A warm current, the Mozambique Current, flows in a southward direction in the channel, leading into the Agulhas Current off the east coast of Southern Africa.
The Portland Hotel (or Hotel Portland) was a late-19th-century hotel in Portland, Oregon, United States, that once occupied the city block on which Pioneer Courthouse Square now stands. It closed in 1951 after 61 years of operation.
The Marquam Grand Opera House, a five-story structure adjoining the Marquam Building, opened in 1890 and was demolished in 1922. An early manager was future Portland mayor George Luis Baker. The opera house, later known as the Orpheum and the Baker Theatre, opened to highly complimentary reviews. A Portland newspaper, The Oregonian, called it "one of the neatest theaters of the west." Another review offered higher praise: "The Marquam...will eclipse all other such buildings in the northwest.