Penobscot Exchange Hotel, circa 1870
- Title
- Penobscot Exchange Hotel, circa 1870
- Date
- 1870
- Description
- Built in 1827 by Zadock French, the Penobscot Hotel (originally French House) was so big that it was known locally as 'French's Folly.' In 1828, the Penobscot Exchange Coffee House, named after Boston's Exchange Coffee House, opened. The building is made of brick, four and a half stories, gabled roof and eight chimneys. The Queen Anne balustrade balcony was added later. The mansard roof was added in 1859, along with two extended wings, possibly the work of Benjamin S. Deane and Edwin Lee Brown. Additions and revisions were a constant theme, and the character of the building continued to shift. In 1908 a city ordinance required that all downtown buildings have a flat roof to alleviate danger from ice and snow, so the building was expanded to a full five stories with an Italianate cornice, as well as modern bathrooms and an elevator. In the mid-twentieth century, the building was briefly a dormitory for Husson College, but was eventually razed in the Urban Renewal program of the 1960s.
- Subject
- Exchange Street (Bangor, Me.)
- French, Zadock
- Hotels--Maine--Bangor
- Penobscot Exchange Hotel (Bangor, Me.)
- Photograph collections
- Stereoscopic views
- Bangor (Me.)--Photographs
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Temporal Coverage
- Nineteenth century
- Language
- English
- Source
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- James B. Vickery Stereograph Collection
- Rights
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