The heart of the city
Mar 01, 2021
3 minutes
by Mara Welty
There I was, decked in a silk skirt befitting Daisy Buchanan and ready to enter a belletristic fantasy; all that was missing was a cloche hat and a presumably unsolvable mystery.
My destination, a red-bricked building that sweeps into mile-high skies, once acted as headquarters to the city’s public transport system — streetcars. Today, the four-diamond hotel, renovated and adorned in gothic lanterns, elicits scholastic elegance. Lofty navy
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