Hotels, Princeton, MA - Wachusett, Mountain House, Wachusett Mountain, c 1880
Hotels, Princeton, MA - Wachusett, Mountain House, Wachusett Mountain, c 1880
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Hotels, Princeton, MA - Wachusett, Mountain House, Wachusett Mountain, c 1880
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View of the Mountain House in Princeton, Massachusetts. taken from the south and showing the summit of Mount Wachusett. The staff quarters which also included a bowling alley and a tea room are shown across the street from the main hotel. The Mountain House opened around 1860 and by 1880 held up to a hundred guests. The main building was destroyed by a fire on July 11, 1914.
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.
Photograph made from the glass negative owned by Jeannette Sullivan in June 1975.