Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
The Windsor Hotel on High Street was a centerpiece of Belfast for over 100 years, outlasting several downtown hotels. It was originally the New England House, opened in 1848 by Luther Coombs in a dwelling.
"No pains or expenditures will be spared in repairing and furnishing the house, erecting outbuildings and fitting them up in a style best calculated to promote the comfort and happiness of the traveling public," he declared. He conducted his business on "strictly temperance principles."
The name was changed to the Windsor Hotel in 1885, and the adjacent tenement building became the hotel annex as business grew. A horse-drawn coach met guests at the steamship wharf.
Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Warren G. Harding were among the hotel's famous guests.
About This Item
- Title: Windsor Hotel, Belfast, ca. 1910
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Belfast, Waldo County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.100136
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Postcards--Maine
- Photographs--Maine--Belfast
- Hotels--Maine--Belfast
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