Business Card for the Village Motel in Highland, Illinois

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“Business Card for the Village Motel in Highland, Illinois,” Madison Historical, accessed December 24, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/820.

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This business card for the Village Motel emphasizes the motel's air conditioning and TV service. The motel was located just off US Highway 40 slightly northeast of Highland, Illinois. At the time the motel was owned and operated by Wally and Ruth Nagel, who purchased the motel in 1958 before the construction of I-70 through Highland. It was sold in 1992 and is currently used as apartments.

• culture
• Highland

• Kaye Plocher, daughter of Wally and Ruth Nagel

1958 - 1992

• The Village Motel in Highland
• Highland

English

• Miscellaneous Document

• jpg

• Highland, Illinois

• Plocher-Kaye-D-0001