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Description
The Bangor House, designed by Charles Bryant and built between 1833 and 1835, cost about $125,000 to build and furnish. It opened on Christmas evening of 1834. Throughout the years, many famous people stayed there, including but not limited to: Teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Howard Taft, Jack Benny, Bette Davis, Tammy Dorsey, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt actually gave a speech the day after she spent the night on May 20, 1941. By 1978, the hotel had been closed, sold and renovated as a home for low-income elderly people.
About This Item
- Title: Bangor House, Bangor, ca. 1945
- Creator: Dexter Press, Inc.
- Creation Date: circa 1945
- Subject Date: circa 1945
- Location: Bangor, Penobscot County, ME
- Media: Postcard
- Dimensions: 9 cm x 14 cm
- Collection: Vickery Postcard Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Bangor House (Bangor, Me.)
- Buildings--Maine--Bangor
- Hotels--Maine--Bangor
- Older people--Housing--Maine--Bangor
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