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For your consideration is a nice stereoview identified on the back list as \"Central House\". This is a great view looking at the front of the hotel with a large group standing on the balcony. Note the signs (\"Lodging Rooms\",\"Dining Rooms\", \"Central House\", and \"Ice Cream\") printed on the awning above the entrance. See below for information about the hotel. This has a nice 3D effect. The view was photographed and published by C.H. Shute & Son, Edgartown, Mass. and is part of the \"Stereoscopic Views of the Camp Ground, Oak Bluff, and Highlands\" series (#90). The initials \"RW\" are written on the verso. You will also find corner wear, and overall soiling.
Please view the enlargeable scans carefully and contact me with any questions.
From the Martha\'s Vineyard Times:
\"Central House was once one of the grand summer boarding houses of the Campground — with 60 rooms, a large dining room, and an attached bakery, it was the largest commercial building on Camp Meeting Association property and one of the oldest hotels in Oak Bluffs. It was located on Montgomery Square, behind Circuit Avenue’s Arcade building.
President Ulysses S. Grant dined at Central House during his famous visit in 1874. The plain, unfinished-looking dining room had long tables seating rows of a dozen or more people in hard seats on either side. But it was also remembered for its excellent meals and friendly staff.\"
Over the coming months we will be thinning out our collection focused on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and the South Shore. We plan to offer many books, maps, photographs and other ephemera of various towns on the Cape and Islands along with the coastal area south of Boston. We will be listing many stereoviews of Provincetown. Oak Bluffs, Cottage City, Edgartown, Nantasket, Scituate, Cohasset Plymouth, Siasconset etc., Photographers offered will include Nickerson, Freeman, Shute, Adams, Warren, Tirrell, etc.. Subjects to include Hotels, Lighthouses, Wesleyan Grove, Camp Meeting, the Cape Cod Canal, Scenics, etc.. Please check our sales regularly and if you are seeking a particular item for your collection contact us and we will let you know if we will be selling one.
