Brown Palace Hotel | Knee-deep in tradition Red granite and sandstone Triangular design |
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tanding the test of time. This unique structure is an historical remnant in the post-modernistic environment which comprises the architecture of Denver. A grand, unprecedented hotel, it cost 2 million to build and furnish in the late 1880's and has been operated as a hotel every day since its opening. As I was making the photograph, I was thinking of the famous image of the Flatiron Building taken by Edward Steichen in 1904.
“I found myself agape, admiring a skyscraper – the prow of the Flatiron Building, to be particular, ploughing up through the traffic of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in the late-afternoon light.” - H.G. Wells
