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Sterling China Company

Hotel

Collector’s Plate

“Condado Beach Hotel

San Juan Puerto Rico”

We offer a 1950s era hotel china souvenir plate from the Condado Beach Hotel in San Juan , Puerto Rico. The plate was crafted by Sterling China Company in Liverpool, Ohio.

The plate features a gray and white image of the hotel rising from the beach. Gold script is painted on a gray border which is trimmed in gold. The Sterling logo is printed on the reverse.

The hotel plate measures 10 1/2” in diameter and 1” in height.

The souvenir hotel plate has age appropriate minor light scratches.

The Condado Beach Hotel plate is presented in very good vintage condition with no chips, cracks, breaks or repairs.

The Condado Vanderbilt Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico has a history dating back to 1919, when Frederick William Vanderbilt, a member of the Vanderbilt family, commissioned the construction of the hotel. The hotel was the first luxury hotel in Puerto Rico and was considered a pivotal moment in the island's history, marking the rise of high-end tourism. The hotel's Beaux Arts-style architecture features white walls, red tiles, French windows, and high ceilings, and was designed by the same architectural firm that designed New York's Grand Central Terminal. The original roofing was made from antique Spanish tiles from older Spanish buildings in Puerto Rico.

In the 1950s, after a series of changes in ownership, the name was changed to the Condado Beach Hotel.