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Description
The resort Hotel Alberta at Old Orchard Beach was built in 1898 on the lower portion of Old Orchard Street.
Selden W. Holt owned it until it burned on August 15, 1907.
A young woman in one of the hotels who knocked over an oil lamp while she was curling her hair started the fire. The fire quickly spread and destroyed 17 hotels, 20 stores and 60 cottages.
The Hotel Alberta was never rebuilt.
About This Item
- Title: Hotel Alberta, Old Orchard Beach, 1903
- Creator: R. Cutler Libby
- Creation Date: 1903
- Subject Date: 1903
- Location: Old Orchard Beach, York County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 13 cm x 18 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 423, Box 3/7
- Collection: R. Cutler Libby glass plate negatives
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Resorts--Maine--Old Orchard Beach
- Hotel Alberta (Old Orchard Beach, Me.)--Photographs
- Hotels--Maine--Old Orchard Beach
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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