Wentworth-By-The-Sea: The Life and Times of a Grand Hotel

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When the Wentworth-by-the-Sea Hotel used to be built in 1873, it joined dozens of other resorts dotting the northern New England landscape. Now 130 years later it remains the probably the most few grand hotels on this region. In between 1873 and 2003, the hotel has undergone early success, bankruptcy, resurgence under the guidance of a gilded age tycoon, one month as the social center of a major international peace conference, decades as a prominent circle of relatives resort and convention center, then near total demolition, and, in any case, resurrection as major upscale hotel and spa.

The dominant architectural feature in seacoast New Hampshire, the Wentworth used to be and is more than a building. Writer J. Dennis Robinson tells the stories of its of-times flamboyant owners, its loyal employees, and the thousands of guests all of whom have made the Wentworth a New England institution.

In this heavily illustrated volume we learn of the Campbell circle of relatives who built the hotel, of Frank Jones, the Portsmouth multi-millionaire who expanded the facility into the major resort, and of James and Margaret Smith who held the aging building together right through parts of five decades at the same time as hosting governors, presidents, industrialists and dozens of conventions ranging from visiting firemen to librarians.

Then for two decades, until the turn of the twentieth century, the hotel used to be closed and nearly demolished, until nearly on the last minute, it used to be saved as a result of public outcry and renovated as the Marriott Wentworth by the Sea Hotel and Spa.

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