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Cheshire House in Keene NH

TITLE

Cheshire House, Main Street, Keene NH

 

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SUBJECT

Hotels - NH - Keene

Business districts - NH - Keene

Stores and shops - NH - Keene

Buildings - NH - Keene

Carriages and coaches - NH - Keene

Roads - NH - Keene

 

DESCRIPTION

Postcard of the Cheshire House hotel on Main Street and Roxbury Street in Keene New Hampshire. The site is that of the former Phoenix Hotel, which burned on April 6, 1836, destroying all but its brick walls. A group of businessmen raised a fund to erect the Cheshire House, using some of the brick walls and the portico left standing from the Phoenix Hotel and it opened in Nov.1837. The Cheshire House was described as "a noble structure, its rooms airy and convenient, and the internal arrangements in full keeping with the inviting appearance of its external forms." The portico of the former hotel building was replaced in 1859 with a piazza extending across the front of the hotel.

 

PUBLISHER

Keene Public Library

 

DATE DIGITAL

20071114

 

DATE ORIGINAL

pre 1900

 

RESOURCE TYPE

photographs

 

FORMAT

image/jpg

 

RESOURCE IDENTIFIER

hsykbdg042

 

RIGHTS MANAGMENT

No known restriction on publication.

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