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Hotel Gleason/Albemarle Hotel, Imperial Cafe

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Hotel Gleason Albemarle Hotel Imperial Cafe
Hotel Gleason Albemarle Hotel Imperial Cafe

Hotel Gleason/Albemarle Hotel, Imperial Cafe is a historic hotel and commercial building located at Charlottesville, Virginia. It was built in 1896, and has a three-bay, three-story pressed-brick facade raised above the ground-floor recessed loggia in the Late Victorian style. The loggia is supported on four Corinthian order columns. The hotel closed in 1976.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

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Hotel Gleason/Albemarle Hotel, Imperial Cafe
West Main Street, Charlottesville

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West Main Street 620,622,624
22903 Charlottesville
Virginia, United States
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Hotel Gleason Albemarle Hotel Imperial Cafe
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Pitts-Inge
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