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and had a frescoed ceiling. Also upstairs were two dining rooms, a reading room, reception rooms, and "lounging-saloons." Purpose-built coaches were organized to collect guests from the railroad station and steamboat wharves. The renovated building was reopened for business as the
Kirkwood House, with 110 rooms available for guests, on Monday, July 3, 1854.
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By 1868 the building had changed hands again; a D.C. tourist guide described it at that time: "It contains about 200 rooms, and can accommodate about 350 guests. It is spacious, elegantly appointed, and its table and attendance is altogether unexceptionable. These, with the advantage of its central
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that "The comfortable and convenient hotel, long established and well known, is still in operation. The patronage of the public is invited." Circa 1865, it would have cost between $ 3 and $ 4.50 a day to stay at a place like the
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