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[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 12th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. elevations] – Antique Photo Print

[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 12th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. elevations], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 12th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. elevations], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic drawing from the Taverns & Saloons 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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[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 12th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. elevations] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Hotel for Azariah Fuller, (Kirkwood House), Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 12th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. elevations]

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Few hotel drawings on this board carry as much history as these elevations of the Kirkwood House, which show its Twelfth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue fronts in Washington. The building began as the Fountain Inn, became the Irving Hotel in 1848, and took the Kirkwood name in 1854, and the sheet labels an oyster cellar entrance at street level. The drawing is inscribed by John Haviland, the Philadelphia architect, and the hotel was demolished in 1875. Its most notable guest was Vice President Andrew Johnson, who stayed there in April 1865, the same month Lincoln was assassinated.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : ink, watercolor, and wash on paper.
GenreInscriptions on recto: Front on Twelfth Street ; Oyster cellar entrance ; Front on Pennsylvania Avenue ; John Haviland Architect Philadelphia Feby 10th [...] Building originally Fountain Inn, then Irving Hotel (1848), then The Kirkwood House (1854). Demolished in 1875.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,465 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217700

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