The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch has partnered with the Baldwin Historical Society to bring you a weekly trivia question that delves into our area's colorful past.
and Patty Woehler, co-presidents of the society, generously write the questions and provide the pictures.
Here is this week's question:
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Seen here on the left in 1899, this building at the corner of Streets Run Road and Old Clairton Road in now- was a hotel in which the Pittsburgh Coal Company (now part of CONSOL Energy) purchased land for from part of the farm of Jacob Leech.
The hotel was named after one of the mines operating in the area, and in the 1920s, the three-story hotel was a famous speakeasy.
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On Oct. 13, 1925, prohibition agents raided the roadhouse and confiscated six barrels of beer and two barrels of wine, and the owner and his bartender were arrested.
Many well-known orchestras played here, including one with Lawrence Welk.
The seventeen-room hotel suffered $25,000 worth of damage during a seven-alarm fire in November 1955 (picture on the right).
What was the name of this famous hotel?
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