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International House Dedicated 1932, 1414 East 59th Street

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $4.95

Stock #:171215
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Chicago
State: Illinois (IL)
County: Cook
Postmark: 1939 Aug-12
Postmark City: Chicago
Postmark State: Il
Stamp: 1C
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Recipient Address:Mrs. Elizabeth Brubaker
Ritter Hall
Athens, TN

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International House, located at 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago, is a residential center for foreign and American students. It was given by Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr., at a cost of three million dollars, as a center for the promotion of international understanding and world peace through contacts among students from all parts of the world. The House has 510 rooms, and assembly hall with sound motion picture equipment, dining room and cafeteria, coffee shop, social rooms, a library, and other facilities designed to carry out the purpose for which the House was established.

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