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Opened as the Granite State House by Mrs. I.C. Estes, the hotel was purchased in 1911 by Frank Hale Thurston. After being renamed, it was enlarged to include forty-four guest rooms, a bakery, a soda fountain, a barbershop, telegraph and post offices, and two dining rooms, one of which was warmed by this fireplace. Frank Hale Thurston and later his wife, Alice Lee Thurston, operated the hotel until 1962. Their six children, Helen Lee, James Andrew, Phillip Hale, Alice Dorothy, Charles Wilson, and Robert Vance, worked there along with Alice's sister, Louise Wilson.
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Old Orchard Beach, Maine · United States
