An Edwardian fantasy in white stucco and marble: Captain John Lake Young's flamboyant personal residence atop Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier is captured here in a teal-and-grey hand-colored card from 1913 — classical statuary guarding the grand entrance, a Baroque bell tower soaring skyward, the whole improbable structure perched above the crashing Atlantic surf. Young, the showman entrepreneur who built the pier in 1906, lived in this ostentatious mansion-on-the-boardwalk until storms eventually claimed it; today only photographs and postcards like this one preserve its memory. Postmarked Atlantic City, August 19, 1913 at 10:39 PM, the card was sent to Miss Marguerite in Poolesville, Maryland — the writer confessing she was having a fine time, visiting many places, and noting she "did not" do something (the cramped cursive trails off tantalizingly). Published by American Novelty Co. of Atlantic City.