by November 1900Hotel Queen Mary
The Elizabeth Hotel and Town Hall, with a figure waving
A man raises his arm in the middle of the square as carriages wait outside the Elizabeth Hotel and neighbouring buildings. Captioned 'Ujvidek, Erzsebet szalloda', dated in ink 28 November 1900 and signed 'Tisztelettel, Geiszler Robert'.
Published by János Urbán
About this place
The Queen Mary was a single storey hotel built in the classicist manner, with a summer garden that the archive photographed in 1935. This archive's catalogue records that it went up in 1854 for its owner Johann Eigler and first traded under the name Elisabeth, and that it was renamed the Queen Mary Hotel on 9 May 1922, after Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia. That change of sign is the ordinary pattern in Novi Sad after 1918, when Habsburg names on streets, squares and businesses gave way to those of the new royal house. Nothing further about the building has been traced beyond the archive's own record.
On the card
Újvidék. Erzsébet Szálloda
- Date
- by November 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25447, 19.84507
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2295 × 1510 px
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