{"id":6867,"date":"2012-02-28T07:12:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T12:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=6867"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T19:19:34","slug":"greens-hotel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/02\/28\/greens-hotel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Green’s Hotel – 8th and Chestnut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s an advertisement for Green’s Hotel from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901.<\/p>\n

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Electric lights and<\/em> modern conveniences!<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Tom Green created quite a stir a few years later by fitting up, at Green’s Hotel<\/a>, Eighth and Chestnut Streets, for that day, a very showy barroom. One of its novel features was a ceiling effect suggestive of the Arctic, with tapering icicles and vistas of shimmering snow and frost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an advertisement for Green’s Hotel from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901. Electric lights and modern conveniences! Tom Green created quite a stir … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[1383,1382,3669,336],"class_list":["post-6867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-news","tag-8th-chestnut-streets","tag-greens-hotel","tag-philadelphia","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1ML","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7163,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/03\/21\/bingham-cafe\/","url_meta":{"origin":6867,"position":0},"title":"The Bingham Cafe","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"March 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an advertisement for The Bingham Cafe from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L'Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901. 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