The hotel's own name is set in raised Serbian letters across the attic, but the word for its annexe below is French, picked out in electric letters, the badge of an international hotel rather than a local one. The printed caption is Serbian alone with no Hungarian, which places the card in the Kingdom. The walled summer garden is laid out in front under clipped trees, and the card is retouched almost to a drawing.
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
HOTEL KRALJICA MARIJA / DEPENDANCE / Letnja bašta hotela Kraljica Marija u Novom Sadu
- Date
- 1935
- Coordinates
- 45.25447, 19.84507
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2128 × 1368 px
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