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Identifier: bookofsummerres00swee (find matches)
Title: Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices ..
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Sweetser, Charles H. (Charles Humphreys), 1841-1871
Subjects: Summer resorts Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, "Evening mail" office
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ne,in New-York and Brooklyn, upon notice being left atoffices—foot of Cortlandt street, Nortb River, and 944 Broad-way, New-York, and at No. 1 Court street, Brooklyn. Arrived at Newport, tbe visitor finds any number ofstages at tbe wbarf or depot, ready to convey bim to abotel. Tbe Ocean House is tbe most fasbionable, and tbenearest to tbe beacb, being on Bellevue avenue, corner ofBowery street, about balf a mile up from tbe wbarf. Ca-pacity for 600 guests; generally open from June lotb toSeptember lOtb; telegrapb office in tbe bouse ; post-officenear; New-York and Boston papers always on band; tabletolerable; terms, ;5 per day—same by tbe week or season.Tbe Atlantic House is situated at tbe corner of Pelbam andTouro streets, directly opposite Touro Park and tbe pidStone Mill. It is kept by William W. Hazard, assisted byJobn Peckbam as clerk, and tbe post-office address is Box893, Newport, R. I. It vnll accommodate 250 guests, andis generally open from May to October. Tbe bouse is
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I ■!.;;^,,.., IM^^^^^^^^^ SEASIDE EESOETS. 11 liglited bv gas and heated by steam—a verv importantitem to tliose who sojourn in XeT^^ort. There is a tele-graph, station near by. The Atlantic House was used bythe Government as a Naval School during the late civilwar. Always supplied with New-York and Boston papers.The Aquidneck House is situated at the corner of Pelhamand Carne streets, just below the Atlantic. It is kept byAYilliam Hodges, assisted by B. A. Winslow, as clerk.Post-office address, Box 777, Newport, E. I. It will accom-modate 150 guests, and is open the year round. The Pel-ham Street House is a short distance below the Aquidneck,at 1.2 Pelham street; proprietor, James T. Potter; Box 779,post-office address; open all the year, and will accommo-date 60 x^ersons; terms for the summer of 1868, $.2.50 perday, and §12 per week. The Perry House is situatedopposite Washington Square, at the head of Long, orSteamboat Wharf; proprietor, George W. Hodges; Box784. This house is

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