The Eagle House Advertising Card [1914]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.O.1996.56
Description
An advertising card from 1914 for The Eagle House, a hotel and meeting venue in Old Town, ME. The front features a photograph of a horse-drawn carriage in front of the hotel, five women standing on the second floor balcony, five men and a dog on the sidewalk out front, and more men leaning out of windows. Surrounding the photo are details and descriptions of the hotel's amenities: "Entrance on Main and Water Streets." "A. G. Perro, Prop." "Electric Lights, Electric Bells, Bath Room." "Special Rates to Theatrical People." "Private Dining Room . . American and European Plan." The back of the card features a poem, likely by local character John F. Young, who printed and distributed his poems to passersby in the 1910s, titled 'The Eagle House in Old Town, Maine.' The poem is seven stanzas, each four lines long. The last line of each stanza ends with "the Eagle House in Old Town, Maine." This use of repetition is found in other poems by Young. Augustus G. Perro, proprietor, expanded his Main Street location into the four storey Fransway Hotel, which outlasted The Eagle House but was destroyed by fire in 1953.