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Site of Ernst Hotel

CITY:

Vandalia

COUNTY:

Fayette

DEDICATED BY:

The Illinois State Historical Society

DEDICATION DATE:

January 1, 1954 at 6:00:00 AM

The marker is located in Vandalia on the east side of Kennedy Boulevard (3rd Street) near its intersection with Main Street.

Here stood a two-story log building erected in 1819 for Ferdinand Ernst who brought the German colony to Vandalia. Named Union Hall, it was operated as a hotel. After Ernst’s death in 1823 it was managed by E.M. Townsend, and from April 1825 by Frederick Hollman.

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