Modern Federal · Hotels

Circular drive and floral display carrying the name of the historic Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The 276-room hotel, which opened in 1933, sits on on a hilltop overlooking Hershey, Pennsylvania. Milton S. Hershey, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, had envisioned the facility as arecreation of the famous Heliopolis Palace Hotel in Egypt, but the design switched to Mediterranean and Spanish influences following the death his Hershey's wife and the outbreak of World War I

Pennsylvania · 1850–1939

Circular drive and floral display carrying the name of the historic Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The 276-room hotel, which opened in 1933, sits on on a hilltop overlooking Hershey, Pennsylvania. Milton S. Hershey, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, had envisioned the facility as arecreation of the famous Heliopolis Palace Hotel in Egypt, but the design switched to Mediterranean and Spanish influences following the death his Hershey's wife and the outbreak of World War I, Pennsylvania, 1850–1939
Circular drive and floral display carrying the name of the historic Hotel Hershey in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The 276-room hotel, which opened in 1933, sits on on a hilltop overlooking Hershey, Pennsylvania. Milton S. Hershey, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company, had envisioned the facility as arecreation of the famous Heliopolis Palace Hotel in Egypt, but the design switched to Mediterranean and Spanish influences following the death his Hershey's wife and the outbreak of World War I, Pennsylvania, 1850–1939. Hotels — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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