FREE: Early 1900's Hotel Raymond Post Card

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Offered is an unmailed Raymond Hotel that was a hotel in South Pasadena, California, and first major resort hotel of the San Gabriel Valley. The hotel was built atop Bacon Hill between Pasadena and South Pasadena and was renamed Raymond Hill with the opening of the hotel in 1886. The original hotel, a grand and unequivocal Victorian edifice was burned to the ground in 1895. A second building was erected in 1901 and equally replaced the older in grandeur. The hotel was foreclosed during the Great Depression and was razed for commercial development. The hotel was the popular hotel of the rich seeking to flee the winter of the East and North as well as early Hollywood stars took up residence here. A great card of a lost California landmark. The card was never mailed but has a message written on the back. A great card for the Pasadena or California resident or collector of lost landmarks.