Maine Memory Network

Hotel Alberta, Old Orchard Beach, 1903

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Glass Negative

Railroad Crossing, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1898

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1898–1899 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print

Luxurious Leisure

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.