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This die cut, chromolithograph trade card from 1882 is an advertisement for 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) in Philadelphia. 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.
Cape May’s 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 1,000 guests, was destroyed by the great fire of 1878 and rebuilt in brick the following year. Notice the verso of this trade card boasts “entire freedom from malaria”.