Description:
Color postcard showing a map of downtown Battle Creek with main buildings highlighted, featuring the Hart Hotel, c 1940. Opened in June, 1930, as a competitor to the Post Tavern as the W. K. Kellogg Hotel, the hotel was purchased by Thomas Hart in 1937 and changed its name to the "Hart Hotel" in 1938. After changing hands several times and brief use as an alternative sentencing program, the building was sold to the Scientology organization in 2001 with intent to use it for their program.
Caption on back: Hart Hotel Television Air-Conditioned Battle Creek, Michigan 100 Rooms with Bath Dining Room Coffee Shop Battle Creek's newest and Finest hotel FREE PARKING LOT