Vintage Congress Hall Hotel Washington DC History Rates Souvenir Booklet 1911

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Congress Hall Hotel Washington DC History Rates Souvenir Booklet 1911.
The Congress Hall Hotel on Capitol Hill was a home-away-from-home for hundreds of congressmen and senators from 1907 to 1930. Eighty-seven of them lived at the hotel during the 64th Congress, from 1915 to 1917, 66 with their wives and families.
The hotel was on New Jersey Ave. SE at Independence Ave. where the Longworth House Office Building is today and was torn down in 1930 to make room for the congressional offices.
Democrats and Republicans and Civil War veterans from both sides lived at the hotel during its heyday. There were “wets and dries,” high- and low-tariff advocates, gold and silver men, opponents and backers of women’s suffrage, and supporters of both sides in what was called the European War until the U.S. entered in April 1917.
The men and their families often ate three meals a day in the hotel’s two white-tablecloth restaurants, and spent evenings playing bridge, poker or chess. Famous congressional storytellers attracted almost nightly audiences.
Product Dimensions: approximately 3.5" X 6", 12 pages, approximate shipping weight: 3 ounces.
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