A view of the Southern Hotel located on the corner of East Redwood and Light Streets in Baltimore, Maryland. Built by Abraham J. Fink (1890-1963) and designed by Otto B. Simonson (1862-1922), this 14-story, 400 room hotel opened in 1918. It was Baltimore's first large Jewish-owned hotel and kept a kosher kitchen. In the 1970s, it was converted into a marine engineering school and by 1999 the building had been razed.
circa 1940-1950
2.75 x 3.5 inches
MC8811-10
1 negative (from group of 10)
MC8811
8717
This collection is part of the larger Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, transferred to the Maryland Historical Society (now Maryland Center for History and Culture) in 1998.
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