April & May 2019

Above: Soldiers and airmen would frequent Congress Hall’s bar
during World War Two — note that the bar was to the right of the
doors that lead to the lobby. Top: The garish red-and-black design
was a product of the 1960s — this is where the new bar is positioned
following the winter renovation.
Right: Four sitting US Presidents stayed at Congress Hall and
imbibed at the bar (some more than others) — from left, Franklin
Piarce, James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant and Benjamin Harrison.
Opposite: Scenes from the all-new Brown Room. It IS still brown,
but everything is new, from the flocked wallpaper to the hardwood
flooring, the plush chairs and, of course, the repositioned, muchenlarged
bar.
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