Category:Drake Hotel (Philadelphia)
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English: The Drake Hotel — a historic high-rise building located at 1512-1514 Spruce Street at the corner of S. Hicks Street between S. 15th and S. 16th Street in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia.
- It was built in 1928-29 by the Murphy, Quigley Company and was designed by the architectural firm of Ritter and Shay in a combination of Spanish Baroque Revival and Art Deco styles. The 375-foot-tall, 33-story building was constructed as a luxury hotel in 1928 and opened its doors in 1929. In 1998 it was extensively renovated and converted to condominiums as "The Drake".
Media in category "Drake Hotel (Philadelphia)"
The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total.
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Drake from Broad Philly.JPG 3,720 × 2,790; 2.91 MB
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Drake Hotel Philly.JPG 3,741 × 2,806; 4.53 MB
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Drake hotel.JPG 2,134 × 2,848; 1.31 MB
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The Drake 1512 Spruce Street entrance.jpg 2,388 × 3,264; 2.04 MB
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The Drake 1512 Spruce Street street facade.jpg 3,016 × 2,448; 1.96 MB
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The Drake 1512 Spruce Street.jpg 2,448 × 3,151; 2.27 MB
Categories:
- Apartment buildings in Philadelphia
- Hotels in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Rittenhouse Square (neighborhood)
- Spruce Street (Philadelphia)
- Hicks Street (Philadelphia)
- Former hotels in Pennsylvania
- Built in Pennsylvania in 1929
- Hotels on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
- 100-149-meter-tall buildings in Philadelphia
- High-rise apartment buildings in Pennsylvania
- 114-meter-tall buildings in the United States
- Brown buildings in the United States
- Ritter & Shay
- Art Deco architecture in Pennsylvania
- Neo-Baroque architecture in Pennsylvania
- National Register of Historic Places in Center City, Philadelphia