70420-0020 - Imperial Hotel

The Teikoku Hotel (Imperial Hotel) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, in Tokyo.

The first Teikoku Hotel was opened on November 20, 1890. It was destroyed by fire on April 16, 1922.

On September 1, 1923, the building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was opened. That building was torn down in 1968.

The current Teikoku Hotel doesn’t have the grace and elegance of its two predessors, but it still stands on the same location.

Because of the halftone printing process used for this postcard, this image doesn’t look good beyond postcard size.