United States Hotel | |
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Former names | Washington Hotel Cumberland Hotel Portland House Cumberland House |
General information | |
Status | Demolished |
Type | Hotel |
Address | Haymarket Square |
Coordinates | 43°39′27″N 70°15′31″W / 43.6575°N 70.2586°W |
Completed | 1803 |
Closed | 1900 |
Demolished | 1969 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 5 |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 150 |
The United States Hotel was a hotel in Portland, Maine.[1] At the time of its demolition, it was one of the oldest hotels in the city. The hotel stood behind the original city hall,[2] which was built in 1825 in what was then known as Haymarket Square.[3][4] Built in 1803 as the Washington Hotel,[5] it was later renamed the Cumberland Hotel. It was renamed again, around 1829, to the Portland House, then the Cumberland House in 1835.[5][6]
The hotel was listed as one of three principal hotels in Maine in The United States Statistical Directory, Or, Merchants' and Travellers' Guide (1847), the others being the American House (at the corner of Fore Street and Lime Street)[3] and Casco Temperance House (on Middle Street).[7] Elm Tavern (on Federal Street) and Cape Cottage (on Cape Elizabeth) joined the ranks in 1850.[8]
Two United States presidents stayed at the hotel: James K. Polk (then in-office) in 1846[6] and Millard Fillmore in 1855. Bill Hickock was also a guest.[3]
It underwent extensive remodeling in 1875, including the addition of a fifth floor,[6] telegraph services for its guests, a reading room, a billiard room and supplementary bathrooms.[3] In 1880, a livery stable was advertised as being connected to the hotel.[9]
In 1891, by which time Haymarket Square had been renamed Monument Square, the ground floor of the hotel was occupied by M. T. Quimby & Co. jewelers.[10]
Its proprietors included Foss and O'Connor,[11][12] R. W. Carter,[3] George F. Wolcott,[13] and Will H. McDonald.[14]
The hotel closed in 1900,[3][15] and the building became Edwards and Walker hardware store, prior to the building's demolition in December 1965. The new construction, located on Federal Street and completed in 1969, was originally the home of Casco Bank. It is the home of One Monument Square today.[4]
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The building in 1941, when it was the home of Edwards and Walker hardware store
References
- ^ "United States Hotel, Potland, ME". Stereoview Photographs. August 21, 2013.
- ^ Jr, Leland J. Hanchett (December 15, 2017). Connecting Maine's Capitals by Stagecoach. Pine Rim Publishing LLC. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-692-94135-5.
- ^ a b c d e f "Portland Hotels". Maine Memory Network. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
- ^ a b "Edwards and Walker, 1941". Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. June 29, 1941.
- ^ a b Depew, Chauncey Mitchell (1895). One Hundred Years of American Commerce: Consisting of One Hundred Original Articles on Commercial Topics Describing the Practical Development of the Various Branches of Trade in the United States Within the Past Century and Showing the Present Magnitude of Our Financial and Commercial Institutions : a History of American Commerce by One Hundred Americans : with a Chronological Table of the Important Events of American Commerce and Invention Within the Past One Hundred Years. D.O. Haynes & Company. p. 151.
- ^ a b c Jr, Leland J. Hanchett (December 15, 2017). Connecting Maine's Capitals by Stagecoach. Pine Rim Publishing LLC. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-692-94135-5.
- ^ The United States Statistical Directory, Or, Merchants' and Travellers' Guide, with a Wholesale Business Directory of New-York. G.F. Nesbitt. 1847. p. 132.
- ^ Disturnell's Railroad, Steamboat, and Telegraph Book: Being a Guide Through the Middle, Northern, and Eastern States, and Canada : Also, Giving the Great Lines of Travel South and West and the Ocean Steam Packet Arrangements, Containing Tables of Distances, Etc., Telegraph Lines, and Charges, List of Hotels, Express Offices, Etc., with a Map of the United States and Canada. J. Disturnell. 1850. p. 98.
- ^ Greenough Jones & Co.'s Directory of Lewiston and Auburn. W.A. Greenough & Company. 1880. p. 28.
- ^ Portland [Me.] Its Representative Business Men and Its Points of Interest, George Fox Bacon (1891), p. 155
- ^ Maine Register Or State Year-book and Legislative Manual from April 1 ... to April 1 ... J.B. Gregory. 1888.
- ^ The Gripsack. 1888. p. 20.
- ^ Representative Citizens of the State of New Hampshire. New England Historical Publishing Company. 1902. p. 233.
- ^ Me.), United States Hotel (Portland (1900). United States Hotel, Portland, Me. Will. H. McDonald, Proprietor.
- ^ Jr, Leland J. Hanchett (December 15, 2017). Connecting Maine's Capitals by Stagecoach. Pine Rim Publishing LLC. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-692-94135-5.