Strawbery Banke Presents
HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #54

This enormous wooden hotel at the Isles of Shoals was built in 1847 and burned in 1914. Today this entire expanse of Appledore Island is empty except for a bird-banding lab at the summer Marine Shoals Lab. A reconstruction of poet Celia Thaxter’s island garden is maintained here by volunteers. It is visible as a fenced area in front of the cottage in the upper left. (click to see)

SEE: Victorian Appledore Advertising
SEE: Appledore Island today 

SEE Oceanic Hotel photo 

BONUS CLOSEUP PHOTO

From HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH
Early Photographs from the Collections of Strawbery Banke
by James L. Garvin & Susan Grigg, Peter Randall Publisher
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