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Landlords' Inn
Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Landlords' Inn Distributor: Mitchell Woodbury Company, Boston Date of plate: 1928   Notes: What would become the Landlords' Inn opened in 1900 as a four-story clapboard hotel with 40 rooms as the Templeton Inn of Templeton, Mass., originally built by Moses W. Richardson in 1900. The name was
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Lake Shore Athletic Club
Manufacturers: Rosenthal China, Germany; and Syracuse China User: Lake Shore Athletic Club Distributor (Rosenthal): Marshall Field & Co., Chicago Date of Rosenthal crescent bone dish: 1926 Date of Syracuse plate: 1930   Notes: Designed by Jarvis Hunt and located at 850 North Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois, the Georgian-style club
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Lake Side Inn
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Lake Side Inn, Lake Placid, NY Pattern Name: Craftsman #25000 Date of plate: 1924   Note: One of the first hotels built on the shore of Lake Placid, circa 1905. This 65-room summer hotel was noted for its fine food and recreation facilities. Not listed in Hotel Red
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Lake Shore Drive Hotel
Manufacturer: Bauscher Brothers User: Lake Shore Hotel Distributor: Arthur Schiller & Son Date of plate: 1920s   Notes: Lake Shore Drive Hotel was built in 1923 at 181 E. Lake Shore Dr., next to several other high-class Chicago, Ill., hotels. It still stands, however it served a stint as the Mayfair
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L'Aiglon Restaurant – Chicago 2
Manufacturer: Walker China User: L'Aiglon Restaurant – Chicago Date of soup plate: April 1958   Notes: The L'Aiglon Restaurant was located at 22 East Ontario Street, Chicago, Illiniois. It had a Continental Bar and three dining rooms, including the Main Dining Room, Parisian Dining Room and Louis XVI Dining Room. White
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L'Aiglon Restaurant – Chicago
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: L'Aiglon Restaurant – Chicago Distributor: E. A. Hinrichs & Co. Date of plate: circa 1940s   Notes: The L'Aiglon Restaurant was located at 22 East Ontario Street, Chicago, Illiniois. It had a Continental Bar and three dining rooms, including the Main Dining Room, Parisian Dining Room and
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L'Aiglon Restaurant
Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Co. User: L'Aiglon Restaurant Border Pattern No: 394 Black Distributor: Dulin & Martin, Washington, D.C. Date of platter: 1918 – 1924   Notes: Aiglon means "eaglet" in French, so it is understandable that china for a L'Aiglon Restaurant would include an eagle in the topmark. And it is for
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Lahr Hotel – Lafayette, IN
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: The Lahr Hotel – Lafayette, Indiana Date of serving bowl: October 1901   Notes: The Lahr Hotel occupied the site of the first Lafayette hotel at the corner of Fifth and Main streets in Lafayette, Ind. The foundation of the first building structure was laid by John
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Lafayette Hotel 2
Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Co. User: Lafayette Hotel Distributor: Mitchell Woodbury Co., Boston, Mass. Date of creamer: Circa 1910   Notes: The Lafayette Hotel, known as The Lafayette, was located at 638 Congress St., in Portland, Maine. According to the former Maine Irish Heritage Trail website, "The Lafayette was one of the
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