The Marshall House Stock Certificate (York Harbor, Maine Hotel)

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The Marshall House Stock Certificate
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The Marshall House
was part of the Marshall family's hotel holdings in picturesque York Harbor, Maine.
The Emerson House (another of the family's properties) and the Marshall House were two of the areas grand ocean front hotels that were built during a building boom in the 1870's and 1880's.  The boom propelled York Harbor into the same social circles as Bar Harbor, Maine and Newport, Rhode Island.
Originally built in 1871, the Marshall House was the largest hotel in York Harbor, accommodating 325 guests by 1900. It offered telephone and telegraph offices, a livery stable, riding and bathing facilities, tennis courts, barbershop, billiards room, ballroom, sailing, fishing excursions and canoes for picnics up the York River. The Marshalls started both an electric and water company, and headed the effort to build the York Harbor & Beach Railroad, opened in 1887.
When the Marshall House burned in 1916, it was rebuilt in fire-resistant brick the following year to designs by noted Portland architect John Calvin Stevens. It resumed its role as the center of York Harbor social life. At its porte-cochère, chauffeur-driven limousines from the estates deposited their owners in evening gowns and tuxedoes, to be joined by hotel patrons for dinner at 7:30 p.m. Post-prandial entertainments included chamber music by a Boston Symphony ensemble in the lobby, or Saturday dancing and costume parties in the ballroom.
The Marshall House was sold in 1957 and demolished in 1972 - replaced with condominiums and the Stage Neck Inn.
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