Hotels, Princeton, MA -Wachusett House, fire, postcard, 1910
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Title
Hotels, Princeton, MA -Wachusett House, fire, postcard, 1910
Subject
Hotels--Massachusetts--Princeton; Summer resorts--Massachusetts--Princeton; Wachusett Mountain (Mass.); Fire
Description
A postcard showing the fire that destroyed the Wachusett House in Princeton, Massachusetts. The photograph was taken at 11:00 AM on November 28, 1910, shortly after the fire started. The Postcard shows damaged furniture taken from the building while the blaze was in progress. The fire caused 30,000 dollars in damage. The Wachusett House was located on the southern end of the Princeton Town Common on what is now Dingman Park.
Creator
Make, Eddy
Source
Is part of the Princeton Historical Society Postcards of Wachusett Mountain collection and compiled by Windsor C. Robinson and donated by Marguerite A. Robinson.
Publisher
C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/
Date
1910-11-28
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
Make, Eddy, “Hotels, Princeton, MA -Wachusett House, fire, postcard, 1910,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed June 18, 2013, http://digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/1028.
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