Cathcart Tourist Home and Cabins

454 E Vandalia, Edwardsville, IL
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This is the Joseph Hotz house that George Cathcart purchased in 1922 and operated as a tourist home. A few years later he expanded nextdoor by opening a tiny hamburger and ice cream stand that eventually grew into Cathcart's Cafe Grocery. The cafe building was torn down in 1999

Still later he built tourist cabins and sold the Cathcart Tourist Home and Cabins to the Goddard family. They operated the Goddard's Tourist Home from 1932 - 1954 from this location.

Some of those tourist cabins still exist behind the main house.

Photo(s): 2016