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Description: Detail of an 1886 map of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, showing the Lamar House, with Gay Street on the right. The hotel consists of the gabled-roof section facing Gay Street (this is the original 1817 building, which still stands), an ell wing connected to the main building which overlooks Cumberland Street (replaced by the rear theater wing in 1909), and a kitchen wing, creating a half-rectangle around an open courtyard. Cropped from map entitled, "Knoxville, Tennessee, County Seat of Knox County."
Title: Lamar-house-hotel-1886-tn1
Credit: This map is available from the United States Library of Congress's Geography & Map Division under the digital ID g3964k.pm009000. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
Author: H. Wellge (drawing), Beck & Pauli (lithograph)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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