Congress Hotel before Rehabilitation

ID: 289 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS MD,4-BALT,220--1 ~ Creator: James W. Rosenthal
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View from the west of the Congress Hotel, formerly the Hotel Kernan.

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By Emma Marston & Theresa Donnelly
Known originally as the Hotel Kernan, the Congress Hotel was built in 1903 by James L. Kernan. Kernan was a savvy businessman who sought to capitalize on the ways in which immigration had influenced…