1940 Melchior Room McCormick Mansion Chicago IL Postcard

1940 vintage postcard. From the 1940s through the 1970s, the Kungsholm restaurant offered Swedish smorgasbord from the McCormick Mansion at the corner of Rush and Ontario Streets in Chicago, Illinois.

The dining room was named after Lauritz Melchior, a Danish-American opera singer who performed with the Chicago Opera from 1934 to 1945. Code 0B-H190 dates this card to 1940.