Manger Hotels was a major 20th-century national chain of luxury hotels, full service motor inns, and upscale motels. Originally founded in 1907 as a chain of luxury hotels by Julius and William Manger, the company shifted to extensive development of large strategically located motor inns and motels in the 1960s.
Plaza Hotel in 1913
The New Grand Hotel (left) in 1910. At right is Wallack's Theatre
Martha Washington Hotel in February 1903, shortly after construction completed
The Peninsula New York, formerly known as The Gotham Hotel
Boonville is a city and the county seat of Cooper County, Missouri, United States. The population was 7,964 at the 2020 census. The city was the site of a skirmish early in the Civil War, on July 17, 1861. Union forces defeated the Missouri State Guard in the first Battle of Boonville. It is part of the Columbia, Missouri metropolitan area.
Image: Boonville Main Street (33426211865)
Image: Old Kemper Military School (7125137597)
Image: Cooper County MO Courthouse 20140920 pano 2 crop
Image: Looking out over Missouri River (7185541245)