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One Last Look at the Martinque Hotel


Credit Doug Loudenback for finding this great postcard of a century-old downtown building taken for granted and overlooked until it was gutted by fire earlier this year. Now we know the building at NW 7 and Broadway, owned by Nick Preftakes, is set to be torn down.
The following video by Will Hider takes a close look at the building, and includes a great photo of the Martinque in its heyday at the end of this clip: