Manufacturer: Mayer China
User: Edgewater Beach Hotel
Distributor: Boston Showcase Company, Boston
Date of plate: Circa late 1940s-early 1950s

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The hotel hosted many notables. In 1949 Eddie Waitkus was nearly killed there by an obsessed fan (inspiring the story "The Natural"); and in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. hosted the National Conference on Religion and Race there.

However, the hotel's fate was sealed when Lake Shore Drive was extended, cutting if off from the lake front. The hotel went into bankruptcy in 1967 and hosted Loyola students as temporary dormitories, but by 1971, the original hotel was demolished. The southerly-located tower remains as apartment buildings.

White body with brown repeating panel design composed of geometric designs, prominent among them a four-lobed cloverleaf. Backstamped as designed by the Sonnabend Studios, the pattern is occasionally referred to as the Tapa design.

For related info:
Edgewater Beach Hotel by Syracuse, Bauscher Brothers and Rosenthal

ID and photos contributed by matthanne1