Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-12-09
RICHMOND HOTELS.
RgnrrIscxNcEs OF soSR OF THs IA
NOUS nosTELRrEs or TIE LONG AGO.
Herman Randolph IN the Fisld with His
Committees, ana the Canvass Row 10
Be Actively Begun for Sab
scriptions 10 the New
Undertaking

ton 81 IS. 600. she was literally provided
with hotels. ~ the fist shows-viz., the
gpoiswood Hotel. American Hotel, Exchinge
Hotel. Ballard House, Columbian Hotel
Monumental (now 81. Claire. PowhAian
House (now Ford'sj, and s.. Charles Hotel.
besides sowe mlror but not uncomfortable
establishments for boarders.
TUE OLD MEDICAL COLLEGE.
ssEhe United states Hotel. at tue corner Of
Min snd Nineteenth streets, may have been
in operation also, but, Il so. Il was only 81 a
feeble way. II WAS erected 10y Or. John
Adams about 1917. and after running more
or less successfully for number OF yeas
was converted into a medical college. After
the present medical college was erected the
hotel was Trsio ed 90 MS former uses. IAirr
on u fell into the hands Of The United state.
Rank A. a part OF ~ ssseis, sud was sold
and purchased by = committee ~ gentiemtn'
who remode icd md rfiurnshfd u. called u
the Tniies states Hotel. AID tried to make ~
rs Grsi-clqss fashionable hotel, but win
a small measure ~ success.
During the late w.ri was used rs mi'i'
taIy hospital end after The war u vas occu'
pied by some llrg, Baltimore wholesale mer.
chants. They bold H. ior year or two ava
then. after @ u,riod oi disn-e, II wa pur'
chased AID established % the Richmond IN.
ttituie for tho education OF colofed baplist
ministers.
REVOLUTIONARY HOUSES.
The Union Hotel. hoseyer, was preceded
by fkerCify Tavern. on the opposite SIDE OF
The street. and before that and 10" years
Afterwards ihe Bird iu-usni. al the loot ot
Church IlH, offered IFS hospitality to man
sui brs-i.
The CITY Tavern was IN active operation
during ne Revolution. ond was Kept ~
Gabriel Gslt. l'euicuaot lsliman. ~ the
Penusylsania fire. who was solder 10
NV.tue's army. 40 bi. diary Published ~ The
perpsyiyauu lHaorlepi Society, mentions
going 10 TINS place and plsyiDg game OF
billiards there. Another Revolutionary nos
t,lry w7s kcrt on tac sontp SIDE OF Main
pcsr Fonrf,enfb. ana ecl0na Iormico q. A
Neau0ljau. va. ne presiding g'uins, ana 50
sell d.1 .hc please irI customers mat she Is
csohalucl in ite pages - iho memoirs OF a
Wrench uarculs. ~ Boo was DO TINS country du-
r.rr fo.tiitis.. A. "thc old Capitol - was
on fle us.t fIdc ~ Fourteenth between
risin and Ctr. serena bad tie pleasure OF
feeding many of the statesmen ~ well ss
Dumuous soldiers o. that historic period
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trr 1915 llstru. 80 Ia0lri at because ol
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modern structure, daling uach not m"py
years before tho VAT.
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1Ht M0bE'
Near about where the state Bank OF TO day
4 the Globe Tavern OF the long ago stood. i
was nrst Mrs.. Giherl's Coffee. House, Their
the Union. and then the Globe. and then u
.4.......ratrT t,,to "a mara sn4rk. hOure and