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

Manufacturers: Mayer China, Homer Laughlin China User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Date of Mayer celery tray: 1974 Date of Homer Laughlin creamer: 1986   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022), the first building on the site – constructed in 1766 – was an 18-room log hotel on

Manufacturers: Buffalo China, Syracuse China User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Pattern name: Syracuse underglaze border #91801 Distributor (Buffalo): Kniffin & Demarest Co., New York Distributor (Syracuse): W.C. Ayres Co., Philadelphia Date of Buffalo tray: unknown Date of Syracuse platter: 1956   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022),

Manufacturer: Scammell China User:  Hotel Prichard – Huntington, West Virginia Distributor: Dean and Kite Company Date of platter: circa 1925 – 1954   Notes: The Hotel Prichard was built for businessman Frederick C. Prichard who planned to use the profits from the hotel to help support the Prichard School for

Manufacturer: Scammell China User:  Hotel Prichard – Huntington, West Virginia Date of candle holder: circa 1925 – 1954   Notes: The Hotel Prichard was built for businessman Frederick C. Prichard who planned to use the profits from the hotel to help support the Prichard School for orphans he was building

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: President Hotel – Atlantic City, New Jersey Distributor: Albert Pick & Company Date of examples: circa 1926 – 1954   Notes: The 12-story, 500-room President Hotel opened September 1926. This $5,000,000 hotel faced the boardwalk and occupied the entire block between Albany and Harford Avenues. The