Manufacturers:  Maddock Pottery and Scammell China User: Puritan Hotel – Boston, Massachusetts Distributor: Mitchell Woodbury Date of production: circa 1909 – 1930   Notes: The seven-story Puritan Hotel, at 388-390 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, was built by boot and shoe manufacturer William Ball Rice. Mr. Rice died in May

Manufacturer:  Syracuse China User: Puritan Hotel – Boston, Massachusetts Date of examples: circa 1912 – 1919   Notes: The seven-story Puritan Hotel, at 388-390 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, was built by boot and shoe manufacturer William Ball Rice. Mr. Rice died in May 1909, before the hotel opened. It

Manufacturer:  Syracuse China User: Puritan Hotel – Boston, Massachusetts Date of plate: circa 1910   Notes: The seven-story Puritan Hotel, at 388-390 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, was built by boot and shoe manufacturer William Ball Rice. Mr. Rice died in May 1909, before the hotel opened. It opened November

Manufacturer:  Syracuse China User: Puritan Hotel – Boston, Massachusetts Distributor: Mitchell Woodbury Company Date of plate: circa 1909 – 1911   Notes: The seven-story Puritan Hotel, at 388-390 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, was built by boot and shoe manufacturer William Ball Rice. Mr. Rice died in May 1909, before

Manufacturers: Maddock Pottery and Scammell China User: Puritan Hotel – Boston, Massachusetts Distributor: Mitchell Woodbury Company Date of examples: circa 1909 – 1947   Notes: The seven-story Puritan Hotel, at 388-390 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, was built by boot and shoe manufacturer William Ball Rice. Mr. Rice died in

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: The Homestead, Maywood, Illinois Date of plate: 1968   Notes: The Homestead restaurant was located at 8305 West North Avenue in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, Illinois. Ashley Hugh Ricketts founded the restaurant in 1938 or 1939 (according to his testimony before Congress in 1957 about

Manufacturers: Syracuse China; Mayer China; Lilien Porzellan, Austria (Minners Designs, distributors) User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Pattern: Nature Studies/Nature Study/N.S. Date of Syracuse service plates: 1951 – 1969 Date of Lilien Porzellan plate: 1975-1978 Date of Mayer plates: Circa 1960s-1980s   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022),

Manufacturers: Syracuse China User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Date of service plate: 1979   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022), the first building on the site – constructed in 1766 – was an 18-room log hotel on 300 acres west of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley that was called

Manufacturers: Syracuse China User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Pattern name: Casino Service Date ranges of plate found in this pattern: 1952, 1954, 1973, 1974   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022), the first building on the site – constructed in 1766 – was an 18-room log hotel