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GoDCer’s Postcard of the National Hotel

The National Hotel

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GoDCer Monica sent in this great postcard of National Hotel after we posted about the hotel the other day.

National Hotel

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Thanks Monica!

READ: Looking Up 15th St. at Pennsylvania Ave. in 1931

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