Wentworth By the Sea: Nyumba yayikulu kwambiri yam'mphepete mwa nyanja

Mbiri ya New Hampshire Hotel

The Wentworth by the Sea (yomwe kale inali Hotel Wentworth), yomangidwa mu 1874 ndi Daniel E. Chase ndi Charles E. Campbell, inali nyumba yayikulu kwambiri yamatabwa pagombe la New Hampshire. Inagulidwa mu 1879 ndi Frank Jones, mwiniwake wolemera wa mabanki, ogulitsa moŵa, makampani a inshuwaransi, makola othamanga, njanji ndi kampani yaikulu kwambiri padziko lonse ya mabatani a nsapato. Jones adalemba ganyu Frank W. Hilton waluso (palibe ubale wa Conrad) kuti aziyang'anira ndi kulimbikitsa Wentworth. Hilton adayambitsa ma elevator oyendetsedwa ndi nthunzi, telegraph ya Western Union, waya wafoni wolumikizidwa ndi Rockingham Hotel, magetsi apamwamba akunja akunja, zipinda zamadzi zotsuka, makina ochapira mbale, tennis ya croquet ndi udzu, chipinda cha billiard, nyumba zosambira, masewera othamanga. mpikisano, akavalo ndi oimba m'nyumba. Ndi imfa ya Frank Jone mu 1902, hoteloyo idagulitsidwa koma inalibe mwiniwake wina wopambana mpaka Harry Beckwith adagula Wentworth mu 1920 ndikuigwiritsa ntchito kwa zaka 25.

Mu 1905, hoteloyi inali ndi nthumwi za ku Russia ndi Japan zomwe zinakambirana za mgwirizano wa Portsmouth kuti athetse nkhondo ya Russo-Japan. Purezidenti Theodore Roosevelt adapereka lingaliro la zokambirana zamtendere ndipo adapambana Mphotho ya Mtendere ya Nobel chifukwa cha zoyesayesa zake. Woyang'anira a Frank Jones, Judge Calvin Page adatsatira chifuniro chake ndipo a Wentworth adapereka malo ogona kwa nthumwi zonse ziwiri. Chikalata chomaliza chitatha kusaina ku Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, aku Japan adachita "Phwando Lachikondi Padziko Lonse" ku Wentworth.

Mu 1916, Annie Oakley wazaka 56 wotchuka adakopeka ndi Manager Harry Priest kuti awonetse luso lake lokwera pamahatchi ndi luso lowombera alendo ku Wentworth. Masewera awiri, gofu ndi kusambira, akufotokozera mwachidule zomwe Beckwith amayang'ana. Analemba ganyu Donald Ross wotchuka kuti apange kosi yabwino kwambiri ya mahole asanu ndi anayi ku New England. Beckwith adamanga Sitimayo, nyumba yayikulu yatsopano yowoneka ngati sitima yapamadzi ndipo ili pakati pa mlatho wopita ku Rye ndi pier ya hotelo. Anapanganso dziwe lakuya lokhala ndi nyanja yokhala ndi simenti yatsopano. Mogwirizana ndi nsalu yaku America yosankhana mitundu, Beckwith adalonjeza alendo ake kuti adzalandira zabwino kwambiri m'malo okhala amitundu okha. The Wentworth idachita bwino kudzera mu Prohibition ndipo idapulumuka ngakhale Kukhumudwa Kwakukulu koma idatsekedwa pankhondo yachiwiri yapadziko lonse lapansi pomwe asitikali adalanda. zipangizo za hotelo kwa nthawiyi.

Mu 1946, Wentworth inapezedwa ndi Margaret ndi James Barker Smith omwe anapereka manja ndi kuunikira kasamalidwe kwa zaka 34 mpaka 1980. M'zaka zimenezo, iwo ankaganizira kwambiri zosangalatsa, masquerades, zikondwerero za Mardi Gras, zithunzi za alendo, tennis, nsomba zatsopano. , kukulitsa malo a gofu mpaka mabowo 18, dziwe lamakono la Olympic la kukula kwake, malo obzala maluwa atsopano, ndi zina zambiri. Anthu ambiri otchuka adapita ku Wentworth: Zero Mostel, Jason Robards, Colonel Sanders ndi Frank Perdue, Wachiwiri kwa Purezidenti Hubert Humphrey, Ralph Nader. , Ted Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Temple, Richard Nixon, Milton Eisenhower ndi John Kenneth Galbraith, pakati pa ena ambiri. Pa July 4, 1964, Emerson ndi Jane Reed anakhala anthu oyambirira a ku America ku America kuti athetse lamulo la tsankho lakale la hoteloyi podyera kumalo odyera.

Pofika pakati pa zaka za m'ma 1970, a Wentworth ndi a Smiths anali okalamba komanso akuipiraipira.

Kumapeto kwa 1980, pambuyo pa nyengo yotentha makumi atatu ndi zinayi zotsatizana, a Smiths adagulitsa hoteloyo ku bungwe la Swiss, Berlinger Corporation lomwe linayesetsa kuti Wentworth aziyenda chaka chonse. Pomaliza, Henley Properties, yemwe anali mwini wake wachinayi m'zaka zisanu ndi ziwiri, adawononga nyumba "zatsopano" makumi asanu ndi atatu ndi zisanu ndikuwononga gawo lakale kwambiri la hoteloyo mpaka matabwa ake. Ndi chuma chochepa komanso kusintha kwa eni ake, Wentworth inatsekedwa mu 1982. Mapulani a kuwonongedwa kwake atalengezedwa, adawonekera pa mndandanda wa National Trust for Historic Preservation wa Americas Most Endangered Places ndi History Channels America's Most Endangered.

Mu 1997, Ocean Properties idapeza Wentworth by the Sea ndipo, itatha kukonzanso komanso kukonzanso, idatsegulidwanso mu 2003 ngati malo ochezera a Marriott. Hoteloyi ndi membala wa National Trust for Historic Preservation and Historic Hotels of America.

Stanley Turkel adasankhidwa kukhala 2020 Historian of the Year ndi Historic Hotels of America, pulogalamu yovomerezeka ya National Trust for Historic Preservation, yomwe adatchulidwapo kale mu 2015 ndi 2014. Turkel ndiye mlangizi wodziwika bwino wamahotelo ku United States. Amagwiritsa ntchito malo ake owerengera kuhotelo ngati mboni waluso pamilandu yokhudzana ndi hotelo, amapereka kasamalidwe ka chuma ndi kuyankhulana kwa hotelo. Amadziwika kuti ndi Master Hotel Supplier Emeritus ndi Educational Institute of the American Hotel and Lodging Association. [imelo ndiotetezedwa] 917-628-8549

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