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Fort Stanwix Hotel

1929

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Fort Stanwix Hotel
  • Title
  • Fort Stanwix Hotel
  • Creator
  • Heffley, Russell H.
  • Date
  • 1929
  • Identifier
  • 200905.188.HF
  • Description
  • View of the Fort Stanwix Hotel on Main Street. The Johnstown Hotel Corporation announced the construction of the seven-story hotel in July, 1913. The cost of construction was approximately $750,000 and the hotel opened in July, 1915. In 1968, the city bought the building, which was then owned by the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, during the urban redevelopment phase of the 1960s and demolished it in order to expand Lee Hospital.
  • Extent
  • 8 x 10 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Hotels
    Commercial buildings
    Streets
    Motor vehicles
    Sidewalks
    Main Street (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Johnstown (Cambria County, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Russell H. Heffley Photograph Collection, 1924- ca. 1950s
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Russell H. Heffley Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
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