Warren Hotel Michigan City Indiana Postcard 1929 Linen Curt Teich For Sale

Standing tall against a powder-blue Indiana sky, the Warren Hotel in Michigan City dominates this richly colored linen postcard with the confidence of a building that knew it was the finest address on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Period automobiles — rakish sedans and touring cars from the late 1920s — line the busy street below, and a crowd of well-dressed pedestrians mills about the entrance, suggesting a Saturday afternoon buzz that has long since faded from this once-grand lakeside destination. The Warren Hotel opened in 1927 as a twelve-story luxury property catering to Chicago day-trippers and summer vacationers drawn to Michigan City\'s beaches and the South Shore Rail Line that connected them to the city. Printed by Curt Teich & Company of Chicago, the card\'s catalog code places it squarely in 1929, just as the Great Depression would begin to dim the hotel\'s early promise. The building survives today in altered form, a quiet artifact of the Jazz Age optimism that built it.

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