Name/Title
Ne-Mat-Ta-No Hotel, North Lubec, Maine | Davis Loring, PhotographerDescription
Classification: Photographs
Old Accession Number: 1623
Description:
The Ne-Mat-Ta-No Hotel burned in August 1921. The Ne-mat-ta-no was a summer resort built in 1890 by the New England YMCA and accommodated 125 guests. The resort boasted a dance pavilion, tennis court, bowling alley, swimming pool and ferry landing where steam launches landed guests.
( ) From Eastport Sentinel, May 28, 1890, p.3,c.1: “Work has commenced this week on the construction of the new hotel at North Lubec, for the North Lubec Improvement Co., a company formed by non-residents, who are associated with the work of the Y.M.C.A. in some the New England cities. .... [Gives details of building, descriptions, location, views] It will be 100 ft. long and 36 ft. wide, two stories with Mansard roof. .... Mr. Henry Newcomb of this town, who built the Owen at Campobello, one of the most elegantly finished and handsomely desgned summer hotels on the Maine coast, is the master builder in charge of the work of construction. He will commence this work with a crew of twenty-five men and push the work along as rapidly as possible.”