Hotel Commonwealth

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $6.95
Original Price: $11.95

Stock #:326710
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: New York
State: New York (NY)
Publisher: The American Art Publishing Co.
Postmark: 1919
Postmark City: New York
Postmark State: NY
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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HOTEL COMMONWEALTH - "GREATEST THING OF ITS KIND ON EARTH" - The Commonwealth will be the first important building to be erected in concordance with the new building law to conserve light and sunshine for the general public. Through its 78 stories which will contain 2500 rooms, it will rise 400 feet in the air, in graceful terraces, or "set-backs" as the zoning law calls them, the flowering plants and shrubs upon each terrace giving the monster hosted an unusual beauty of architecture, rivalled only by the ancient Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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