Vintage Tea Rooms

The richly detailed, well-illustrated website on vintage American tea rooms of the early 20th century maintained by Jan Whitaker, author of Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn: A Social History of the Tea Room Craze in America.

tea rooms, department stores, afternoon tea, tea room menus, stuffed tomatoes, salads, women's history, Burdine's, Schrafft's, tea sandwiches, cakes, home-based business, women in business, history of tea rooms, tea room history, Americana, women's occupations