So after I made my post the other day about the "black cloth building" I came home to research the building and as I wrote, I discovered the building was the storied Hotel Pennsylvania. So I was in the city tonight for dinner with friends and I brought my wide-angle lens with me. I also wondered if there was anything left that was not covered by cloth, that would speak to how beautiful the building once was. I was overjoyed when I stepped out of Penn station and saw this view of the hotel, and I could see the columns at the front entrance. I would have some evidence in my photographs of what once was.
Here is a close up of the entrance and the beautiful Ionic columns beneath the name of the hotel carved into the marble and lined with gold leaf. I now have some evidence of a building that soon will be no more.
1 comment:
Glad that you captured the original entrance of the hotel as it used to be. Sad that so much history is being demolished! betsey
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