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This is great! It shows the Studebaker factory/showroom building (built in 1885) before it added some stories and became the Fine Arts Building (in 1898). (The floors behind the arched windows were the showrooms for Studebaker horse-drawn carriages, and the smaller windows above were for the assembly of the carriages.) You can also see that Adler & Sullivan's Auditorium Building had not gone up yet, to the left.

Viewers interested in the modern-day history of this building may be interested in the following illustrated post: "The Fine Arts Gets a Face-Lift" on the website Celia Her City. I appreciate Cornell's making this magnificent photograph available online. Susan Barsy, PhD

Irina Hynes Susan Barsy Thank you for your contributions!

This image is wrongly titled. It is not the Feathers Inn at Ludlow. This building is known as The Abbot's Kitchen and is located at Glastonbury.

Picture Esk Thank you for your remark. Happy to forward your information to the curator.

The Abbot's Kitchen is a mediaeval octagonal building that served as the kitchen at Glastonbury Abbey in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The abbot's kitchen has been described as "one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe". The stone-built construction dates from the 14th century and is one of a very few surviving mediaeval kitchens in the world. Historically, the Abbot of Glastonbury lived well, as demonstrated by the abbot's kitchen, with four large fireplaces at its corners. The kitchen was part of the opulent abbot's house, begun under Abbot John de Breynton (1334–42). It is one of the best preserved medieval kitchens in Europe and the only substantial monastic building surviving at Glastonbury Abbey. The abbot's kitchen has been the only building at Glastonbury Abbey to survive intact. Later it was used as a Quaker meeting house. The building is supported by curved buttresses on each side leading up to a cornice with grotesque gargoyles.Inside are four large arched fireplaces with smoke outlets above them, with another outlet in the centre of the pyramidal roof. The building is designed so that hot air from the cooking fires would have risen up to the top of the building and escaped, whilst cooler air came from openings lower down and sunk into the kitchen, cooling it. The kitchen was attached to the 80 feet (24 m) high abbot's hall, although only one small section of its wall remains.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lost American Architecture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

This became the location of the Hay-Adams hotel.

Beautiful photograph of the Hay-Adams house--the first one I've ever seen. As the boxes added by Whitewall Buick indicate, the building comprised two residences: the diplomat and Secretary of State John Hay lived in one, and his friend and author Henry Adams lived in the other. Adams, a descendant of two presidents and son of diplomat Charles Francis Adams, was born in Massachusetts but took up residence in Washington after the Civil War, when he was a young man. He was the anonymous author of the political novel "Democracy" and a great observer of the social and political scene. He lived in Washington the remainder of his life.

This project has picked up a renew interest for CUL. Susan Barsy Tim Engleman Thank you for for all this information.