Galveston, TX, United States
Washington Hotel. This building is a reconstruction of a structure built in 1873 for prominent Galveston merchant John Parker Davie and named the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Davie sold the business in 1878 to John Summers, who renamed it the Washington Hotel after an earlier inn by that name which was destr
oyed in the Galveston fire of 1877. The J. P. Davie Wholesale Builders' Hardware store occupied the first and fourth floors of the east end of the building. The ground floor of the west end provided s
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