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[Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.: exterior] – Historic Print

[Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.: exterior], [1930s] — historic photograph
[Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.: exterior], [1930s]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.: exterior] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.: exterior]

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The Shoreham Hotel, a large apartment-style hotel on Calvert Street in the Woodley Park area of northwest Washington, is the subject here, shown from the outside rather than its interiors or guest rooms. The hotel opened around 1930 and was built to serve visitors and residents in a growing neighborhood along Connecticut Avenue. Theodore Horydczak, a commercial photographer, documented Washington's buildings and streets across several decades, and his work captures how the capital looked between the wars. Pictures like this one record the city's architecture at a time when hotels were becoming a visible part of its streetscape.

Created / published[1930s]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by Theodore Horydczak, Washington, D.C. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Hotels.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,214 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157757

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