Hotels, Princeton, MA -Wachusett House, advertisement, 1881

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Title

Hotels, Princeton, MA -Wachusett House, advertisement, 1881

Subject

Hotels--Massachusetts--Princeton; Hotels--Advertising; Summer resorts--Massachusetts--Princeton; Wachusett Mountain (Mass.)

Description

Full page advertisement for the Wachusett House in the Princeton Directory for July 1881. The Advertisement includes a print of the hotel by Rand McNally. P.A. Beaman and Son are listed as the proprietors. Phineas Beaman, a Princeton resident, purchased the Wachusett House in 1860, and the Beaman family ran the hotel until it burned in 1910. The Wachusett House was located on the southern end of the Princeton Town Common on what is now Dingman Park.

Source

Image is from page 22 of The Princeton Directory: Number 1. - 1881, entered by Will S. Brick.

Publisher

Date

1881

Contributor

Brick, Will S.

Relation

Is part of the collection of the Princeton Historical Society, http://www.princetonmahistory.org housed in the Princeton Public Library, http://www.princetonpubliclibrary.org Goodnow Memorial Building, Princeton, Massachusetts.

Format

image/jpg

Language

en-US

Type

Image

Identifier

PHS-2007-11-117-002

Files

Citation

“Hotels, Princeton, MA -Wachusett House, advertisement, 1881,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 19, 2013, http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/1025.

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