Divine Lorraine Hotel High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Divine Lorraine Hotel, also known as the Lorraine Apartments, stands at the corner of Broad and Fairmount Streets in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed by architect Willis G. Hale and built between 1892 and 1894, the building originally functioned as apartments, housing some of Philadelphia's wealthy residents. Lorraine Apartments is one of the most luxurious and best preserved late 19th century apartment houses in Philadelphia. In 1900 the building became the Lorraine Hotel when the Metropolitan Hotel Company purchased the apartments. Later it would become the first hotel in Philadelphia to be racially integrated under Father Divine. |
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| Title | Divine Lorraine Hotel |
| Editors | Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn |
| Publisher | Book on Demand, 2012 |
| ISBN | 5512715976, 9785512715970 |
| Length | 90 pages |
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