Description
The Plaza Hotel in Danville, Illinois, stands proudly in this colorized postcard, a multi-story brick building with arched windows and a State Bank on the ground floor. The vintage postcard features a one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamp and a German-printed “Private Post Card” marking. This lovely postcard, showing a building that replaced an old schoolhouse, dates from approximately the 1910s.
Front Text (cleaned):
MILY PRES, Plaza Hotel, Danville, Ill.
Back Text (cleaned):
PUB EXCLUSIVELY FOR S. H. KNOX & CO.
PRINTED IN GERMANY.
PRIVATE POST CARD
Bet
17
THIS SPACE IS FOR ADDRESS ONLY
UNITED
STATES OF
1706 FRANKLIN 1790
POSTAGE
ONE CENT
THIS SPACE MAY BE USED FOR
CORRESPONDENCE
Leon,
that house Albert built stands
where the old schoolhouse did.
I appreciate that
is the fund
secured ever well to
school
Oakland 201.
Coles Co.
