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2 unusual facts about SS Charles W. Wetmore


SS Charles W. Wetmore

The SS Charles W. Wetmore was a whaleback freighter built in 1891 by Alexander McDougall's American Steel Barge Company shipyard in Superior, Wisconsin, USA.

Her career was short: she ran aground on 8 September 1892 in fog off Coos Bay, Oregon while carrying a load of coal from Tacoma, Washington bound for San Francisco.


Grand Hyatt New York

The Commodore was designed by Warren & Wetmore and leased by The New York State Realty and Terminal Company to The Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation of which John McEntee Bowman was President.

James A. Burden House

Soon after, he commissioned the architects Warren & Wetmore to design a palace as a wedding present for his daughter Adele, who married James A. Burden II, heir to the Burden Iron Works.


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