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Illinois State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town.
Illinois State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town.
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== Chicago, Illinois ==
[[File:Canton-Tea-Garden-Chicago-IL-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Canton Tea Garden, Chicago, Illinois, interiors, postcard front.]]
[[File:Canton-Tea-Garden-Chicago-IL-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|Canton Tea Garden, Chicago, Illinois, interiors, postcard front.]]
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[[File:Surf-Tea-Room-Chicago-IL-interior-1932-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The Surf Tea Room, Chicago, Illinois, interior, postcard, circa 1932.]]
[[File:Surf-Tea-Room-Chicago-IL-interior-1932-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The Surf Tea Room, Chicago, Illinois, interior, postcard, circa 1932.]]
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== Rock Island, Illinois ==
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[[File:Tea-Room-L-S-McCabe-And-Co-Rock-Island-IL-Postcard-Interior-1908.jpg|center|thumb|600px|The Tea Room at L. S. McCabe and Co. department store, Rock Island, Illinois, circa 1908; the decorations are tastefully arrayed paper flowers, the layout of the tables is spartan.]]
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To place a tea room in a department store, unless it is very extravagantly furnished and set well away from the shopping areas, is to make of it a nice convenience, but rarely a social destination. Proving my point, the tea room at the L. S. McCabe Dry Goods Co. department store in Rock Island, Illinois, is scarcely a meeting place of mystery; it is, rather, a stolidly Republican rendezvous sans romance.
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Perhaps the Presbyterian plainness of this tea room can be understood by reading the "Biography of L. S. McCabe," as found in ''"Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock Island County, Illinois: Containing Full-Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States; also Containing a History of the County, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time,"'' a pay-for-inclusion "Who's Who" published from 1885 and well into the 20th century by the Biographical Pub. Co. of Chicago, Illinois.
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== Saint Charles, Illinois ==
[[File:Club-Arcada-Tea-Room-St-Charles-IL-interior-deckle-linen-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|400px|Tea Room at the Club Arcada, St. Charles, Illinois, interior; deckle-edged linen card, postcard front, circa 1940s.]]
[[File:Club-Arcada-Tea-Room-St-Charles-IL-interior-deckle-linen-postcard-front.jpg|center|thumb|400px|Tea Room at the Club Arcada, St. Charles, Illinois, interior; deckle-edged linen card, postcard front, circa 1940s.]]

Revision as of 23:06, 14 October 2022

Illinois State Tea Room Gallery, in alphabetical order by name of city or town.

Contents

Chicago, Illinois

Canton Tea Garden, Chicago, Illinois, interiors, postcard front.
Chicago Northwestern Passenger Terminal Tea Room, Chicago, Illinois, postcard front, mailed in 1915. Despite the overall easily-cleaned tile surfaces of this railway depot tea room, some attention has been given to the Prairie School Craftsman aesthetic, with potted plants and fresh flowers at every table. Note also that the tables and tall-backed chairs are identical to those in the very posh Marshall Field's Department Store Tea Room, also in Chicago, and also on this gallery page.
Chicago Northwestern Passenger Terminal Tea Room, Chicago, postcard back, mailed in 1915.
Japanese Tea Room, Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1920
Marshall Field And Co Tea Room, Chicago, Illinois, postcard front. Compare the coffered ceiling and Prairie School Craftsman aesthetic with the Chicago Northwestern Railroad depot Tea Room above, including identical tables and chairs.
The Russian Tea Room and Art Shop, Chicago, Illinois, interior, postcard.
The Surf Tea Room, Chicago, Illinois, interior, postcard, circa 1932.

Rock Island, Illinois

The Tea Room at L. S. McCabe and Co. department store, Rock Island, Illinois, circa 1908; the decorations are tastefully arrayed paper flowers, the layout of the tables is spartan.

To place a tea room in a department store, unless it is very extravagantly furnished and set well away from the shopping areas, is to make of it a nice convenience, but rarely a social destination. Proving my point, the tea room at the L. S. McCabe Dry Goods Co. department store in Rock Island, Illinois, is scarcely a meeting place of mystery; it is, rather, a stolidly Republican rendezvous sans romance.

Perhaps the Presbyterian plainness of this tea room can be understood by reading the "Biography of L. S. McCabe," as found in "Portrait and Biographical Album of Rock Island County, Illinois: Containing Full-Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States; also Containing a History of the County, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time," a pay-for-inclusion "Who's Who" published from 1885 and well into the 20th century by the Biographical Pub. Co. of Chicago, Illinois.


Saint Charles, Illinois

Tea Room at the Club Arcada, St. Charles, Illinois, interior; deckle-edged linen card, postcard front, circa 1940s.
Tea Room at the Club Arcada, St. Charles, Illinois, interior; deckle-edged linen card, postcard back, circa 1940s.

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