A night scene at 12th and Washington shows the once fashionable Washington Hotel and Apartments, built in 1880 by Charles E. Hasbrook on the southeast corner of the intersection. The building, with its marble wainscoting and fireplaces, was a fashionable hostelry in the West Side Quality Hill era. There were 132 rooms in the hotel. Adjoining, and always related, was Hasbrook Court Building, with large apartments and storerooms. The total 12th Street frontage was 260 feet and the hotel also had a frontage of 150 feet on Washington. Fire ravaged the old hotel in 1952 and the building was razed in 1953. When the hotel closed, the names of many of the prominent persons who had lived there were recalled, including Mrs. Mary Atkins, whose gifts made possible the Atkins Museum in connection with the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Howard Holden, First National Bank president; Frank Tyler, last of the great dealers in buffalo hides; Andrew Drumm; James Cravens; D. B. Holmes; James Oglebay; Judge and Mrs. W. L. Stocking; Henry A. Guettel; Nathan Schloss and others. The reverse side of the post card bears this information: All outside large, airy rooms. Single, en suite and with private baths. Four blocks from shopping district. Five minutes from Stock Yards. Popular priced cafe and lunch counter in connection. Rates from $1 up. Take Broadway car direct to door. Kansas City Star, March 27, 1976.
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