Architectural details at ground level of the historic Hamilton Hotel, the tallest building in Laredo, Texas

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The Hamilton was built in 1900 as a three-story building, a tornado in 1906 destroyed its overhanging balconies. In 1923 an additional nine floors were constructed. In 2002, the hotel won an "Excellence in Historic Preservation" award from the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, following an extensive renovation.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.