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Title: Santa Monica Hotel. Myron Hunt, architect
Date Created and/or Issued: 1919-05
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a rendering of the proposed Santa Monica Hotel in Santa Monica, California. The Santa Monica Hotel was a project designed by architect Myron Hunt but never realized.
"Santa Monica Hotel, Myron Hunt, architect, May 1919"--text, on item. Printed information about building on verso, beginning: "The Santa Monica Beach Hotel, to be erected under the direction and promotion of the Santa Monica Beach Association of Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Hollywood and Pasadena, will be situated at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance of Palisades Park, with sea and beach frontage of 1200 feet. ..." and handwritten message: "This is going to be built in Santa Monica pretty soon. Mrs. Dunkin was here yesterday but I didn't see her because I was at Helen B. Well so long. Here is a kiss. How did you like my picture on the post card?" Title and date transcribed from item. Image reproduced in Ernest Marquez publication: Santa Monica Beach: A Collector's Pictorial History (Angel City Press, 2004), page 147.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.5 x 13.5 cm (postcard format)
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19528
Subject: Hotels
Hotels--Design and construction
Photographs. (aat)
Architectural drawings (visual works) (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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