1888 GALVESTON, TX. LETTERHEAD WASHINGTON HOTEL TREMONT MECHANIC NEWSON

Description

PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING:
I sell ORIGINAL items ONLY and NOT ANY reproductions.
This sale is for
ONE VERY RARE
advertising
LE
TT
ERHE
A
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from the
W
A
S
HI
N
G
T
ON
H
O
T
EL
CORNER OF TREEMONT & MECHANIC STREETS
IN
GALVESTON, TEXAS
during the year of
1888
.
NAMES LISTED ON THE LETTER:
A. S. NEWSON,
PROPRIETOR
D.J. LAWLOR,
MANAGER
Clarks and Courts
is noted in fine print as the Lithograph Printing Co.
In 1873 John Parker Davie had erected on this corner a four-story sixty-room hotel. Originally the Cosmopolitan, it was renamed
the Washington
the year after the famous
old Washington Hotel at 21st and Mechanic Street burned down in the fire of 1877.
The structure, was a late Greek Revival four-story brick building with simple classic details. The exterior brick walls had stucco that was scored to resemble stone and sprinkled with marble dust. On the ground floor were French doors with fanlight transoms were set in arches. The narrow windows of the upper floors were topped with plain hoodmolds. The
entrance to’ the hotel was on Mechanic Street.
There is a historical marker that marks the location and has an image of the hotel with it’s name.
On the surface an example of very late Galveston Greek Revival, the Washington Hotel is in fact a combination of styles. How did it happen that a building of this size and importance was built in a style of almost fifty years old… Whatever the answer, the Washington Hotel cements and reflects the love affair with the Greek Revival seen in the Galveston vernacular architecture of the time.  It is written about this style being the "Galveston Style" of the time period.
CONDITION:
Normal letter folds, 2 file holes at top, another torn hole that is on the lithography.  I was able to piece a small portion of the damage on the back side as it was on another document.  Please view both the images provided. The paper is in good condition other than toning and the flaws noted.  This is still a very interesting document historically.
The item is sold as is.  The "EBAY" thing is just a loose piece of paper that is not attached to the letterhead.
This
LE
TT
ER
notes at the top Mr?
Hall &
Monteith
(which I believe is from Belton Texas)
and it is signed by
Lyduor?
Approximate size of
letterhead is
6" X 9".
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