Commercial Hotel, Waterloo, Ontario
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Exterior of the Commercial Hotel at Dupont (formerly Duke) and King Streets. Sign lists J. Seyler as the owner. Men standing outside and a woman with baby carriage visible on the left. Streetlamp can be seen.
To the right is the beginning of construction of the Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance building. - Notes
- Originally called Traveller's Hotel which burned down and new building built in 1882 and owned by Jacob Seyler. Bell Telephone Directory of December 1897 lists A.Z. Zuber as the Proprietor. Vernon Directory of 1899-1901 lists Edward Hollinger as the Proprietor. Then Jacob Conrad until 1902 when he sold to Henry Reisig. Appears in the 1927 Vernon Directory. Eventually became a drug store.
See "The Pennsylvania German Dialect and the Autobiography of an Old Order Mennonite", by Allan M. Buehler; 289.713440924 Beuhl; pp 158.
- Date of Original
- [ca. 1890]
- Date Of Event
- [ca. 1890]
- Dimensions
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Width: 18 cm
Height: 23 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 18cm
Image Height: 23cm
- Subject(s)
- Baby carriages
Banks
Hotels
Insurance companies
Conrad, Jacob
Streetlamps
Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance Company (Waterloo, Ont.)
Dominion Life Assurance Company (Waterloo, Ont.)
Commercial Hotel (Waterloo, Ont.)
Molson's Bank (Waterloo, Ont.)
Seyler, Jacob
Zuber, A.Z.
Hollinger, Edward
Reisig, Henry
32 King Street North (Waterloo, Ont.) - Local identifier
- C-5-25; P 68; Neg. No. 193
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.466154 Longitude: -80.52249
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 5E2
