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Mountain Lake Hotel, Mountain Lake, Virginia, circa 1940

Subjects
Hotels & InnsLakes & Ponds
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Mountain Lake Hotel, Mountain Lake, Virginia, circa 1940, c. 1930 linen postcard
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Back of Mountain Lake Hotel, Mountain Lake, Virginia, circa 1940, c. 1930 linen postcard
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About this postcard

A long, rambling rustic hotel with red roofs and stone-and-shingle walls sits on a wooded slope above a broad sheet of water, with smaller outbuildings and a red-roofed boathouse or pavilion at the shoreline. Mountain Lake, high in the Alleghenies of Giles County, is one of the few natural lakes in Virginia, and the hotel that grew beside it became a well-known mountain resort in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The caption names the subject simply as the hotel at Mountain Lake, Virginia.

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PublisherE. C. Kropp Co.
HOTEL AT MOUNTAIN LAKE, VIRGINIA—76 --- This rustic stone building is the new hotel at Mountain Lake, near Pembroke, Virginia. In the foreground are the boat dock and diving tower, part of the varied recreational facilities at Mountain Lake. Thousands of vacationists flock annually to this modern resort in the exhilarating climate of the Allegheny Mountains. 31518N POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE MADE IN U. S. A. BY E. C. KROPP CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS. — (AKL) NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY PHOTO
Addressed to
Minnie Raynor

Carole Trefz Riverside R.D. #7. Johnstown, Penna. Jan-22-1946 Minnie Raynor

FromCarole Trefz, Johnstown, PA

Postcard record

PublisherE. C. Kropp Co.
Series76
ConditionGood
Place depictedMountain Lake Hotel, Mountain Lake, VA
Place mentionedMountain Lake, Pembroke, VA
PublisherE. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, WI
Place sent fromCarole Trefz, Johnstown, PA
NotesLinen-textured stock with a narrow white border; card number 76 printed at the end of the caption line. No postmark. Divided-back linen postcard; E.C. Kropp "PLACE STAMP HERE" box with E / C / K / Co corner marks; vertical imprint "MADE IN U. S. A. BY E. C. KROPP CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS. — (AKL)"; "NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY PHOTO" at foot. Sender name/address and date Jan 22 1946 written in pencil on the message side. Light edge wear.

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Mountain Lake Hotel, Mountain Lake, Virginia, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/mountain-lake-hotel-mountain-lake-virginia-circa-1940. Accessed October 24, 2026.