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This drawing by Lewis Publishing Company artist George Blake is an idealized view of Camp Lewis and was used by Edward Gardner Lewis in promoting his tent city. Camp Lewis was built on property in University Heights #1. The Woman's Magazine Building and Press Annex do appear, as does the Epworth Hotel (renamed the Park Hotel after the Fair). But the temporary and more unsavory establishments on the south side of Delmar have been omitted. The layout of Camp Lewis appears reversed. The dining tent and other community facilities were actually on the north side, rather than on the south side as they appear here.
When Edward Gardner Lewis opened the People's United States Bank, he hired architect Herbert C. Chivers to design the building. This sketch by artist George Blake includes tall obelisks on either side of the door and sphinxes flanking the broad stairway. Neither of these were included when the building was completed. When the Bank was closed in 1905, Chivers' plans for the intended building were adapted for use as the publishing plant for Lewis' newspaper venture, "The Woman's National Daily."

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