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The New Mathewson: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:25pm.
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Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, circa 1910. "Hotel (New) Mathewson." For many years the pre-eminent lodging in the "City of Hotels." View full size.
The towers still exist.
Submitted by J W Wright on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:17am.
Spanning across the road:
Coast Guard House
Submitted by John.Debold on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 8:35pm.
I believe that house on the right with the anchor is now the Coast Guard House Restaurant. Had dinner there last summer. My first time in Narragansett.
My HAT!
Submitted by steelwheels on Sun, 03/18/2012 - 11:15am.
OOOH GEEZ my hat!
[Indeed. - tterrace]
This is one a fire didn't get
Submitted by Larc on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 7:39pm.
Perhaps the grandest hotel in the area when it was completed in 1896, the 500-room (New) Mathewson survived only 22 years. It was demolished in 1918, a victim of severely depressive effects of WWI on the tourism industry.
Shingle Style
Submitted by Lectrogeek68 on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 4:58pm.
Without Googling it, I'd imagine it burned down, like so many hotels of the era. But if it didn't, I pity the guy who had to do the stripping ten years after some fool decided to paint it.
remnants
Submitted by rickypix on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:12pm.
off to the right, the remains of the great McKim, Mead and White Narraganset Pier Casino, (The Towers,) which burned spectacularly in 1900
Oh, say, can you see?
Submitted by RadioMattM on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:33pm.
By the looks of that flag you would have thought Francis Scott Key spent the night on an English ship in the harbor.
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