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Main Street.
A streetscape gathers many separate decisions into a single view. Shopfronts, upper windows, signs and gaps between buildings reveal the rhythm of a place without requiring a single spectacular landmark. Margolies’s Main Street photographs invite a slower kind of looking: read from one façade to the next, notice differences in scale, and follow where a sign interrupts the roofline. State and city filters allow neighboring views to be considered together.
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Midland Hotel, Wilson, Kansas

Zion Hotel Dome (moved to roadside after hotel was razed), Route 32, Zion, Illinois

Kaskasia Hotel, Marquette Street, La Salle, Illinois

Jumer's Castle, Western Avenue, Peoria, Illinois

West Hotel (1899), Main Street, Trinidad, Colorado

Holiday Inn, Hollywood, California

Hotel Stockton, Stockton, California

Mission Inn, angle 1, Orange Street, Riverside, California

Mission Inn, angle 2, Orange Street, Riverside, California

Palace Hotel (1891), State Street, Ukiah, California

Solvang Castle Inn, angle 1, Route 246, Solvang, California

Solvang Castle Inn, angle 2, Route 246, Solvang, California

The Hopland Inn, Route 101, Hopland, California

San Jose House Rooms (1881), Fremont Street, Tombstone, Arizona

Renaissance Hotel, Quebec Street, Denver, Colorado

Corner Building, Washington Street, Washington, Iowa

Carson Block, angle 1, 2nd Street, Eureka, California

Corner Building, State & Pearl Streets, Ukiah, California

Cole Block (1891), angle 1, San Diego, California

Cole Block (1891), angle 2, San Diego, California

George J. Keating Building (1890), 5th & F Streets, San Diego, California

Corner Building detail, angle 1, 12th & Park, Paso Robles, California

Corner Building detail, angle 2 (closer), 12th & Park, Paso Robles, California
![Corner Building, Marian [i.e. Marion] and Jefferson Streets, Sigourney, Iowa](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/mrg/00900/00940v.jpg)