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This three-story structure, with its broad verandas and fluttering pennant, was the finest hotel in the city in the last two decades of the 20th Century, or earlier. The hotel was located in downtown Gainesville, on the Northwest corner of courthouse square, on the site of what long has been Woolworth's Department Store. The original Arlington House building burned many decades ago. The lamp posts shows in the drawing also appear in very early photographs of downtown Gainesville, from the last decades of the 19th Century, and may be gas lamps; most early electric lights were over-head lamps. A livery stable West of the hotel survived several years after the hotel was demolished.