United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005V. O. Hammon Publishing Co. (Minneapolis, Minn.)1893/2021Postcard (color, divided back, 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches) titled – Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago, Ill. The Chicago Beach Hotel was a luxury resort hotel located at 1660 East Hyde Park Boulevard. The hotel was built in 1892 by Warren Leland and was one of many speculative hotels built to accommodate the hordes of tourists drawn by the upcoming Columbian Exposition of 1893. It contained 450 rooms, with 175 bathrooms. The property extended to Lake Michigan. Many Chicagoans of high social standing became residents and members. The building had private access to the beach until 1915 when the city created an adjacent bathhouse. It lost its beach frontage entirely in 1920 when the shoreline was moved more than a block eastward with a landfill project that created South Lake Shore Drive. No descriptive text on reverse. Postage required: one cent, Domestictwo cents, Foreign. Card number 576. *Note: This card was published by V. O. Hammon Publishing Company, a major publisher of tricolor view-cards of the Great Lakes region. They also published novelty cards. Most of their cards tend to have a distinct look as they were printed in crisp RGB colors with small red block lettering.image/jp2engMinneapolis, Minn.: V. O.Hammon Publishing Co.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard CollectionHotels--Illinois--ChicagoPostcards--Illinois--ChicagoChicago Beach Hotel, Chicago, Ill.StillImage