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Wednesday Window ~ Hotel Baker on the Fox River in Saint Charles, Illinois

July 15, 2009 by Lanora

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Upper story windows of the Hotel Baker, built in 1928 at a cost exceeding $1 million. At the time, the 55-room hotel was the most luxurious small resort hotel in the country. The structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In its original heyday, the Hotel Baker's Rainbow Room headliners included Tommy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo, Louis Armstrong, and Lawrence Welk.

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Filed Under: Architecture, Historical travel, Photography, Travel, Wednesday Window Tagged With: Architecture, Fox River, Fox River Valley, historic hotels, historic travel, hotel, Hotel Baker, hotels, northern Illinois, Photography, Saint Charles IL, Spanish Revival architecture, St. Charles IL, travel photography

Wednesday Window ~ U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Downtown Oklahoma City

June 24, 2009 by Lanora

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Massive bronze grill above an entry to the 1912 Beaux Arts U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Oklahoma City, the first monumental building erected in Oklahoma City.

The structure was designed by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect for the U.S. Treasury Department. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974, It was restored in 1992 and now serves as an office building and courthouse.

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Wednesday Window ~ On the historic Franklin County Courthouse square, Ottawa, Kansas

June 17, 2009 by Lanora

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A relic from the 1880s, this elaborately detailed building sits directly across from the Franklin County Courthouse in Ottawa, Kansas. (I checked. The asking price is $149,900.)

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Wednesday Window ~ Red River Trading Post, Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, Oklahoma

June 3, 2009 by Lanora

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At the reconstructed 1840s Red River Trading Post at the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma, a reenactor describes his life as a frontiersman trader.

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