21 Jul newly discovered john vinci kodachrome slides of clinton j. warren’s lexington hotel taken shorty before its demolition

i’m pretty confident i’ve now digitized all of john vinci’s kodachrome slides of warren’s lexington hotel taken shortly before its demolition in 1996 by national wrecking. a few might have carried over from a previous post, but i can finally file this one away. 

the neoclassical style hotel lexington building was designed by chicago architect clinton j. warren in 1891-92. in a four-year span (from 1889 to 1893), warren designed the congress hotel, the leander mccormick apartments, the metropole hotel, the plaza hotel, and the lexington. with the exception of the congress hotel, the other buildings have been demolished.

the salvaged cast brass monogrammed guest room doorknobs with beaded borders courtesy of bldg. 51 museum archive.