8.05.280

Print, Photographic

1940 Approximate

Billiard Hotel Demolition. Material: paper. Size: 4 1/4" x 3 1/4". Description: black and white photograph of the Billiard Hotel being demolished, razed to make way for the addition to the E. F. Johnson Company located behind it in the 200 block of 2nd Avenue S.W., Waseca, MN.; this hotel was located on the south side of West Elm Avenue; 205 West Elm Avenue, Waseca, MN.

Waseca business: E.F. Johnson Co.; E.F. Johnson Company; E.F. Johnson Corporate Headquarters; E.F. Johnson Company Corporate Headquarters; E.F. Johnson Co. Corporate Headquarters; E. F. Johnson Co.; E. F. Johnson Company; E. F. Johnson Corporate Headquarters; E. F. Johnson Company Corporate Headquarters; E. F. Johnson Co. Corporate Headquarters. Waseca business: Billiard Hotel. 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.