Windsor Hotel, Belfast, ca. 1910
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Penobscot Marine Museum
The Windsor Hotel on High Street was a centerpiece of Belfast for over 100 years, outlasting several downtown hotels. It was originally the New England House, opened in 1848 by Luther Coombs in a dwelling.
"No pains or expenditures will be spared in repairing and furnishing the house, erecting outbuildings and fitting them up in a style best calculated to promote the comfort and happiness of the traveling public," he declared. He conducted his business on "strictly temperance principles."
The name was changed to the Windsor Hotel in 1885, and the adjacent tenement building became the hotel annex as business grew. A horse-drawn coach met guests at the steamship wharf.
Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Warren G. Harding were among the hotel's famous guests.
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