The Eagle House [Postcard, 1930s?]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.O.1996.151
Description
A postcard from approximately 1930-40. The front is a photograph also seen in musuem object OBJ.O.1996.56, a 1914 advertising card for The Eagle House hotel, hence the image is much older than the postcard. In it, a horse-drawn carriage is parked in front of the two-storey building, with people standing on the sidewalk out front and on the second floor balcony. A taller building, seen behind The Eagle House, is likely The Fransway Hotel, which Augustus G. Perro built onto the back of the older business in 1912 and which was located on Main Street until burning down in 1953. This postcard is captioned, "Eagle House A G Pero (sic.) Prop." and "Old Town ME."