Details
Title Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia. Congress Hall, Cape May. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia,]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1882
Date 1882
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 11 x 17 cm. (4.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Die cut trade card shaped and illustrated as the front of one daisy and the back of another. Advertises the luxury hotels The Colonnade Hotel and Congress Hall. The Colonnade Hotel was a luxury hotel completed in 1868 at 1500-1506 Fifteenth Street (southwest corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut streets). The hotel was named after the "Colonnade Row" of early nineteenth-century pillared, porched townhouses previously on the site. The hotel was demolished in 1925 for the erection of the Franklin Trust Company Building. Congress Hall, one of the oldest seaside hotels, was built in 1816 by Thomas Hughes, at Beach Drive and Congress Street. The hotel, originally called the "Big House," was renamed Congress Hall in 1828 when Hughes was elected to Congress. The grand lodging, able to accommodate 1000 guests, was destroyed by the great fire of 1878 and rebuilt in brick the following year.
Notes Advertising text printed on verso for the Colonnade Hotel and Congress Hall operated by H.J. and G.R. Crump of Philadelphia.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Colonnade Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Congress Hall (Cape May, N.J.)
H.J. & G.R. Crump.
Daisies.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- New Jersey -- Cape May.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Colonnade Hotel [1975.F.125]
Accession number 1975.F.125