Lotus Club, Lake Contrary, Color Photo Postcard, c. 1904

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Lotus Club, Lake Contrary, c. 1904: Image depicts a colorized photo postcard of the Lotus Club at Lake Contrary, St. Joseph, Missouri, featuring a two-story white building with steeple turrets, surrounded by an expansive lawn, with hand-drawn annotations indicating the location of the pier, boat house, and east shore.
Lotus Club, Lake Contrary, c. 1904

Image depicts a colorized photo postcard of the Lotus Club at Lake Contrary, St. Joseph, Missouri, featuring a two-story white building with steeple turrets, surrounded by an expansive lawn, with hand-drawn annotations indicating the location of the pier, boat house, and east shore.

Name/Title

Lotus Club, Lake Contrary, Color Photo Postcard, c. 1904

Entry/Object ID

AM9999.809.19260

Scope and Content

Lotus Club, Lake Contrary Photo Postcard, c. 1904. Colorized photo of side of club house in distance, a two-story white building with steeple turrets, expansive lawn. Flag pole. "The Lotus Club, St. Joseph, Mo." Handwritten at bottom: "Picture made about 1904" "East Shore of Lake Contrary. Along left side of card front: Lake Contrary with arrow to a bit of water shown in photo. near boat house. At top of card: Pier and Boat House with arrow pointing. "It was built in the 1880's by the St. Joseph Boating Association as a private men's Club for $50,000. In 1900, The St. Joseph Railway, Light and Power Company bought it, changed the name and turned it into a hotel. In its heyday, it had a dance floor built over the lake, tennis courts, and hotel-hosted regattas. It burned in 1924 and was never rebuilt.... St. Joseph, A Postcard History....Davis/White.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Postcard

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Media

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Search Terms

Lakes, St. Joseph Entertainment, Lotus Club, Lake Contrary Boathouse, Lake Contrary

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Date

Nov 2, 2014

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Notes

AM2003.025.00074