This building was once a hotel catering to the travelers that came with the many passenger trains that stopped at Washington. It was built so that every room had an outdoor window, which allowed breezes through all the rooms, this is according advertisements from the time. It has been re-muddled many times and as is typical the windows have been despoiled by changing their historic profile. Below is the way that the building may look with more appropriate windows is shown here. You may like the naive primitive flags, but then you may miss Dick Cheney.
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to clarify …
The first windows would have been one-over-one, or two-over-two, sash windows. The top sash would have been the same size as the bottom sash, and the 'divider' would have been in the middle, top to bottom, of the window. What you have here is a later remuddle.
Maude
AKA "Queen of the Boulevard", which is not a self-appointed title. It was bestowed; it was a small, private ceremony.
Windows - they are like eyes - If you could see inside the windows - the stories they would tell ....
Lalalalala!!
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