Image: Partial elevation of the Saint Louis  Hotel just prior to demolition. This impressive Greek Revival style hotel was completed in 1841.  Note the lantern and dome over the lobby rotunda just peaking over the roof cornice.  This hotel must have been magnificent.  Today it would be a treasured landmark.  The photograph dates from the turn of the twentieth century, perhaps 1910.   The demolition began in 1916, and continued on into 1917.  Private collection.
      
Howard Clinton Tibbits, (1863-1937), the photographer, was principle photographer for the Southern Pacific railroad's promotional magazine, 'Sunset,' from 1892 until 1937. - Biography From the 'Online Archive of California.'  

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