Hey all,

Does anybody have any pictures of any hotels in the Uptown area? I've tried googling to find some but no luck. I'm talking about the Viceroy & Lawrence Hotel in particular. I found some old postcards of some other hotels in the area but no such luck for these two.

Wasn't the Viceroy on the 1500 block of W. Warren????????.

I found these two postcards:
[url=http://chicagopc.info/Chicago%20postcards/hotels%20g-o/lawrence%20hotel%20new.JPG]New Lawrence Hotel[/url]

[url=http://chicagopc.info/Chicago%20postcards/hotels%20p-z/viceroy%20hotel.jpg]Viceroy Hotel[/url] <--cool vantage point

I see from Google maps that they are both still standing, are they apts/condos now?
very cool looking buildings. Very nice postcards wayoutwardell.

Wasn't there one on Montrose, Just east of Sheridan?. That had a fire in the late 1960's?.

They're both actually retirement centers now, The Lawrence Hotel was pretty swanky in the old days, with all their rooms being supplied with Marshall Field's ware and it even has(had) an indoor pool , golf practice center, handball courts, exercise gymnasium, and rooftop garden with views of Lake Michigan. The Viceroy is now called the Lorelei, it's right on Lawrence and Kenmore, and during it's prime had an indoor pool too and had a famous restaurant known as the Viceroy Palais, which was known for it's Chinese/American food and jazz music

As kids we'd frequent the New Lawrence Hotel pool. It was probably the first indoor pool I'd been in. Memory serves, it was $0.50 to get in.

Here's a great blog that features many of Uptown's old hotels.


http://uptownhistory.compassrose.org/

Go to ebay and google "chicago postcard". Hundreds of antique postcards will come up, including many of old hotels.