Hotels, Princeton, MA - Summit House, Mount Wachusett, third structure, after 1908
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Title
Hotels, Princeton, MA - Summit House, Mount Wachusett, third structure, after 1908
Subject
Wachusett Mountain (Mass.)--History--Pictorial works; Hotels--Advertising; Hotels--Massachusetts--Princeton; Summer resorts--Massachusetts--Princeton; Mountains--Massachusetts--Princeton
Description
Commercial photograph of the third Summit House on Mount Wachusett in Princeton Massachusetts built by John C.F. Murick in 1907. The text proclaims that the Summit house was open from May to October, the manager was E.W. Needham and that Wachusett Mountain is 2,015 feet above Sea Level [and the highest point East of the Berkshire's in New England]. The 14 bedroom hotel was operated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1908 through the middle of the 1930's when it stopped having overnight lodging. The third Summit House burned to the ground on December 18, 1970
Publisher
C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/
Date
1907-1920?
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
Files
Collection
Citation
“Hotels, Princeton, MA - Summit House, Mount Wachusett, third structure, after 1908,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 25, 2013, http://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/1054.
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