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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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Hotel Pachakuteq, Aguas Calientes, Peru

March 18, 2008 by Lanora

Hotel Pachakuteq, Aguas Calientes, Peru

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Filed Under: Architecture, Travel Tagged With: aguas calientes. street, hotels, machu picchu, mountains, peru

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