Title

Summer Hotel postcard collage

Creation Date

1919

Description

Postcard photographic collage of Glenwood Summer Hotel, in Long Beach, Minnesota. It is labeled "Some views from the Glenwood Summer Hotel, Lake Minnewaska at Glenwood Minn." on the front of the card. It includes six views showing the great room, dining room, south porch, view to the lake, view from the lake and a view of the hotel's shoreline. The black and white photographs ae angled in three rows across a dark grey background. The postcard includes the number .061 which is often a photographer's reference. The photographer is unknown.

Glenwood Summer Hotel, aka Minnewaska Summer Hotel, built 1919, razed 1946, sat on the north shore of Lake Minnewaska between the lake and "Shallow Pond." Names through the years from the telephone directory: 1921 Minnewaska Hotel; 1922 Minnewaska Health Resort; 1933-1937 Glenwood Summer Hotel; 1938-1939 Long Beach Hotel; 1940 no listing; 1941-1942 National Youth Administration Residence Center.