Council of State Governments convenes. Washington D.C. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings was principal speaker today as the third General Assembly of the Council of State Goverments convened at the Mayflower Hotel. He is shown with delegates to the councils. Left to right: Commissioner William Ellis of New Jersey, Chairman of the Inter-State Commission on Social Security; Judge Richard Hartshorne of New Jersey; Attorney General Cummings, Governments and former Governor of Indiana; and Gov. Gordon Browning of Tennessee
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A group of men standing next to each other.
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The Mayflower Hotel is a historic hotel in downtown Washington, D.C. The largest luxury hotel in the District of Columbia, the longest continuously operating hotel in the Washington D.C., it is known as the "Grande Dame of Washington", the "Hotel of Presidents", and as the city's "Second Best Address" (the White House is the first). The Mayflower Hotel was built by Allen E. Walker, Initially called the Hotel Walker, it was to have 11 stories, 1,100 rooms, and cost $6.2 million ($87,650,497 in 2016 dollars). It opened on February 18, 1925.
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Date
1900 - 1940
Contributors
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
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