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Griswold Hotel, New London, Connecticut

PublisherPublished by Detroit Photographic Co. (American)

Date1906-1952

MediumLithography; colored printer's inks on card stock

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/4 x 5 1/4in. (8.3 x 13.3cm) Sheet (height x width): 3 1/2 x 5 1/2in. (8.9 x 14cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Object number2013.96.1-.5

DescriptionFive postcards: The Griswold, Eastern Point, New London, Connecticut; Dining Room, The Griswold, Eastern Point, New London, Connecticut; Rotunda, The Griswold, Eastern Point, New London, Connecticut; View from Main Entrance, The Griswold, Eastern Point, New London, Connecticut; West Entrance, The Griswold, Eastern Point, New London, Connecticut.

NotesSubject Note: The Griswold Hotel was built in 1906 by Morton F. Plant on the site of the Fort Griswold Inn (formerly the Edgecombe House) in Groton, Connecticut. Designed by Robert W. Gibson and built by the firm of Maquire and Penniman, the hotel consisted of 400 rooms and could accommodate 500 guests. Some of its features included a ballroom, a news room (with telephones and telegraph machines), two verandas, and a lounge. The grounds were fully landscaped. The resort was heralded as luxurious and beautiful, and served summer visitors, wedding parties, and spectators of the Harvard-Yale regatta.

Morton Plant died in 1918, and the hotel's ownership changed hands many times before Milton O. Slosberg purchased it in 1956. Slosberg renovated the hotel and conducted extensive marketing campaigns in efforts to revitalize the flagging business. In 1967, Slosberg closed the hotel and sold the property to Charles Pfizer and Company in 1968. The building was demolished in 1969, and nothing was constructed to replace it. As of 2008, Pfizer had transferred some of the land to the Shennecossett Golf Course, and left the rest of it untouched.

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