The Lombardy boasts the last truly manual elevator in D.C.; there is an operator on hand at any time of day to take guests to their floors. In just a few weeks, however, the elevator is scheduled ...

Walking into one of the elevators in downtown Baltimore is like entering a time warp. The quiet wood-paneled lifts accompanied by greetings from operators are an anomaly in today’s automated age.

The Young Quinlan building is home to the last of its kind: A manually operated elevator. "It's all the same as it was," said Lee Bowser, the elevator's operator. "The original back in 1926." ...

The two 97-year-old machines are relics from a different time. Located in the Insurance Centre and Grain Exchange Building, the manual elevators employ the last lift operators in the city.