Breakwater Hotel collection, 1890s-2008.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Breakwater Hotel collection, 1890s-2008.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/354989440

Many brochures reflecting the 70 years of the hotel's existence; postcards; mss. of articles on its history, and published versions of some of these; and a guest register (1921-1932).

1 box.

Woods Hole Historical Collection

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7372777

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Redfield, Heloise G., 1883-1966

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67d2tkf (person)

Redwood, James D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x63m70 (person)

Breakwater Hotel (Woods Hole, Mass.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wx1b15 (corporateBody)

Breakwater Hotel built in the 1860s to house workers at Pacific Guano Company factory located further along the road on Long Neck (presently Penzance Point); property bought by developer Horace Crowell in 1889 and he turned building to face Great Harbor. In the 1890s it became a hotel and was sold in 1900 to Maria Bowman; ownership changed several times but in 1924 Heloise G. Redfield became the general manager and in 1940 bought the hotel herself. She is the one proprietor who is most closely a...

Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c53k95 (person)

Baldwin Coolidge was born in Woburn, Massachusetts on July 7, 1845. He was the son of Mary (Manning) and Benjamin Coolidge and the great-grandson of Loammi Baldwin, Revolutionary War patriot and engineer for the Middlesex Canal. Coolidge grew up in Lawrence and became that city’s first engineer at age 33 before he changed careers and opened up his first photography studio in Boston in 1878. The photographer returned to live in a Baldwin family home in Woburn in 1889, around the time that the pho...

Swank, Allan W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m07fx (person)