View of the roof of the Adolphus Hotel, 1915.
Silver gelatin photo by Charles Erwin Arnold.
A68.28.
Gift of Miss Louise Arnold.

An elaborate Beaux-Arts roof tops the Adolphus Hotel, built by Adolphus Busch in 1913. The hotel replaced A. B. Bristol's four-story City Hall, constructed in 1889-9.

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