Manufacturer: Carr China Company
User: Morrison Hotel's Terrace Garden Restaurant
Date of pasta bowl: circa 1920s-1930s

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Notes: Located in Chicago, Ill., at Madison and Clark streets, the Morrison Hotel was home to the Terrace Garden restaurant. In addition to fine dining and dancing, the dance floor could be turned into an ice rink for skating and ice shows.

The hotel was built around 1913-14, but an addition in 1927 took the hotel to a height of 637 feet and made it, for a time, the world's tallest hotel.

The Boston Oyster House was another well-known restaurant in the hotel and had its own topmarked china, not produced by Carr. But what is interesting is that this pattern includes a seafood motif, and you can see by the hotel's key fob, above, the Terrace Garden was advertised with the fob in the shape of an oyster shell. This could have been the hotel's attempt to advertised both restaurants at once.

The Terrace Garden had other topmarked china that was made by Bauscher Brothers of Germany in 1925, and it depicts the same image as on the postcard shown above. The Morrison was demolished in 1965.

White body pasta bowl with a black stripe near the center of the rim and a yellow-gold pinstripe under the black stripe. Both are broken at the top of the rim by a drawing of a red lobster hanging out of a steaming pot over a fire. Under the drawing, and curving upward from the verge, are the words: "Morrison. Terrace. Garden." in black block letters.

Contributors:
Susan and Ed Phillips