Item #1847 Hotel Leopold Bellingham Menu. WASHINGTON STATE -- Food and Drink.
Hotel Leopold Bellingham Menu

Hotel Leopold Bellingham Menu

(Bellingham): Hotel Leopold. F. Stanley Piper. 8vo. Three-panel menu featuring a large, full page map on obverse of menu. Folds to four inches by nine inches. Self-wraps. Light wear. Very Good+. Item #1847

The map, measuring 14 inches by nine-and-a-half inches, is by F. Stanley Piper. An Englishman, Piper immigrated to Bellingham around 1910, where he made his mark as a regional architect. Approximately the same year Leopold Schmidt, founder of Olympia Beer, bought the Bellingham's Byron Hotel, which was eventually renamed the Leopold Hotel (or, as noted here, the Hotel Leopold).

Piper's best known map is the pictorial map of Orcas Island. Here he captures all the San Juan Islands, as well as the Gulf Islands on the Canadian side of the archipelago. Piper's sense of humor and whimsy shines forth, with cattle at Swinomish Slough noted as "contented cows," golfers shown mid-swing, and Hotel Leopold towering above all else in Bellingham. Not surprisingly, the menu proffers Olympia Beer ... at 10 cents a glass.

Price: $40.00