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MOAT VIEW HOUSE, LATER RED BARN OUTLET |
Caption |
MOAT VIEW HOUSE, LATER RED BARN OUTLET |
Description |
Published: THE CONWAYS Keywords: HOTELS, toURISM, StoRES later Red Barn, Music Store, Seadog restaurant Emerson, The Conways, p. 93 The Red Barn, North Conway. Once part of the Moat Mountain House, this building saw many uses before becoming the Red Barn Outlet Center. This early photograph was intended to be used as a stereograph. Here is some information from the book, "Conway, New Hampshire 1765-1997" by Janet McAllister Hounsell and Ruth Burnham Davis Horne, p. 257: Moat Mountain House > > "In 1789, Amos Barnes built the Moat Mountain House. He later sold it and moved to Kearsarge. As far back as the memory goes of some residents living (in 1962) the Moat Mountain House was owned and conducted by Thomas Eastman, a grandson of Abiathar Eastman, on whose original grant the house was situated. > > After Mr. Eastman's death, Mrs. Eastman and her son carried on the business. She was a woman of talent, an artist and a writer ("East of the White Hills"). Though during the last years of her life she was totally blind, she carried on bravely. > > The Moat Mountain House was well named, for behind it stretched the long, gentle slopes of the mountain so beloved by Conway natives. Much later called Strack's Motor Lodge, the accommodation also featured overnight cabins. Barnes also erected a new Moat Mountain House, roughly across the road from The Homestead." |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Medium |
STEREOGRAPH |
Print size |
5 X 7 |
Number of images |
1 |
Object ID |
2010.500.462 |