1903George O. Stacy built Colonial Arms, which was the largest hotel on the North Shore at the time.Events & Anniversaries, Location and Setting, Fires, Tourism

Colonial Arms under construction, 1904. Waldo I. Wonson, Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives, Photo 00921

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It burned down in 1908.

Babson, John James, and Samuel Chandler. History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Anne, Including the Town of Rockport. Gloucester [Mass.] Procter brothers, 1860, http://archive.org/details/historytownglou00changoog

Other Events

1903
John Hays Hammond Sr., father of inventor, John Hays Hammond, Jr., purchased land in Freshwater Cove where he eventually built properties on Lookout Hill.
1903
Hose No. 8, a horse-drawn fire wagon, was built.
1903
The artist Augustus Waldeck Buhler moved into his studio at 17 Rocky Neck Avenue year-round.
1904
Swedish and Finnish people began to work the "motions", or the two-man quarries in Lanesville.

1903George O. Stacy built Colonial Arms, which was the largest hotel on the North Shore at the time.Events & Anniversaries, Location and Setting, Fires, Tourism

Other Events

John Hays Hammond Sr., father of inventor, John Hays Hammond, Jr., purchased land in Freshwater Cove where he eventually built properties on Lookout Hill.

Hose No. 8, a horse-drawn fire wagon, was built.

The artist Augustus Waldeck Buhler moved into his studio at 17 Rocky Neck Avenue year-round.

Swedish and Finnish people began to work the "motions", or the two-man quarries in Lanesville.