7625k

Print, Photographic, Carte-de-Visite

1900 Approximate

Paul Billiard's Nicollet Hotel Business Card. Series of three 1 1/8" x 1 1/4" black and white portraits of two women; unidentified; mounted in a row on the back of a business card for "The Nicollet Hotel, Paul Billiard, Proprietor; One dollar per day house; stable in connection; 107 West Elm Street; Two blocks north of Union Depot, Waseca, Minnesota" 107 West Elm Avenue.

From the photograph album of Miss Pearl Billiard (Mrs. Ernest Boje). Paul and Mary (Radloff) Billiard were owners and proprietors of a successful Waseca Hotel. The Billiard Hotel was a misnomer as it was actually The Nora House and later The Nicollet House. It's location was 215 West Elm south side of the street and a half block of the M & ST Louis Railroad Depot. The well known hotel and boarding house with the Billiard family operating it for over 40 years. In 1937, it became The Snow's Chicken Hatchery. In 1945, E.F. Johnson Company bought the building and tore it down.