Did stop at the Colonial Inn, on Shore Road:
Colonial Inn
The Colonial Inn is a historic hotel at 145 Shore Road in Ogunquit, Maine. The hotel complex is anchored by an 1890 Queen Anne Victorian hotel that is one of the few surviving resort hotels of the period, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The complex also has rooms in adjacent motel spaces; its amenities include a swimming pool, game room, and dining room serving breakfast.
The Colonial Inn is located on an L-shaped property bordered on the west by Shore Road and the north by Beachmere Lane. The Ogunquit Baptist Church stands south of the main hotel building, in the crook of the L. The main hotel building is a long, roughly rectangular, four-story wood frame structure whose long side faces Beachmere Lane. A single-story porch extends along the length of this façade, which has a projecting three-story section near its center, and a rounded section at the northeast corner. The origins of this building lie in a c. 1850 Greek Revival residence, which was repeatedly extended and enlarged between the 1880s and c. 1920.
Extending southward from the eastern end of the main hotel (behind the church, as seen from Shore Road) is a modern two-story motel block, built in 1983. To the east of this building, near its southern end, stands a second two-story motel structure, oriented east-west, that was built about 1961. Just north of that is a c. 1900 Shingle style cottage, 1-1/2 stories in height, that faces eastward toward the ocean. This house was originally the residence of the hotel proprietor. The hotel swimming pool is located just east of the main hotel and north of the 1983 motel block.
The hotel is historically significant because it is the only surviving 19th-century hotel in Ogunquit that still serves as a hotel and retains its historic appearance. Other hotels of the period have either been converted to condominiums or (like the neighboring Beachmere) been engulfed by modern alterations. The Colonial Inn property encapsulates an architectural history of tourist accommodations in the area
Just down the road is the Ogunquit Memorial Library:
The Ogunquit Memorial Library is the public library of Ogunquit, Maine. It is located at 166 Shore Road, in an architecturally distinguished Romanesque Revival built in 1897 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was a gift to the town by Mrs. George Conarroe in honor of her husband. The library is open daily except Sunday during the summer (May to October), and Wednesday-Saturday except holidays during the off-season.
The Ogunquit Memorial Library is located on the west side of Shore Road in central Ogunquit, in an area with many seaside resort accommodations. It is a rectangular building, fashioned out randomly course fieldstone, with a hip roof and a projecting gabled entrance. At one corner of the entrance stands an engaged circular staircase tower with a conical roof above a molded cornice. Eyebrow dormers project from some of the roof elevations. The interior is well-preserved, its original features including a large fireplace that was at first its sole heat source.
The library was built in 1897 to a design by Philadelphia architect John M. Burns, and is one of the finest examples of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in southern Maine. The building was enlarged in 1914 to a design by Henry A. Macomb, also of Philadelphia; the quality of design and execution make it virtually impossible to distinguish the addition from the original. The library was the gift of Philadelphia resident Mrs. George Conarroe in honor of her husband
I then drove on into Perkins Cove, but could not find nary a parking space- so I headed back up to the town of Ogunquit parked, and strolled a bit, then on to home.
I stopped in at the office, and discovered that Bette's medical supplies had been safely delivered to the office at the campground! Scratch that off the list.
Bette has gone off to lunch and shopping with her new girl friends, so I'm all alone for the rest of the afternoon looks like.
Didn't go to Portland today as I thought I would, since the map museum is not open on Mondays. Rescheduled for Friday.
Tomorrow is a short trip up to Alfred Maine nearby.
Extending southward from the eastern end of the main hotel (behind the church, as seen from Shore Road) is a modern two-story motel block, built in 1983. To the east of this building, near its southern end, stands a second two-story motel structure, oriented east-west, that was built about 1961. Just north of that is a c. 1900 Shingle style cottage, 1-1/2 stories in height, that faces eastward toward the ocean. This house was originally the residence of the hotel proprietor. The hotel swimming pool is located just east of the main hotel and north of the 1983 motel block.
The hotel is historically significant because it is the only surviving 19th-century hotel in Ogunquit that still serves as a hotel and retains its historic appearance. Other hotels of the period have either been converted to condominiums or (like the neighboring Beachmere) been engulfed by modern alterations. The Colonial Inn property encapsulates an architectural history of tourist accommodations in the area
Just down the road is the Ogunquit Memorial Library:
The Ogunquit Memorial Library is the public library of Ogunquit, Maine. It is located at 166 Shore Road, in an architecturally distinguished Romanesque Revival built in 1897 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was a gift to the town by Mrs. George Conarroe in honor of her husband. The library is open daily except Sunday during the summer (May to October), and Wednesday-Saturday except holidays during the off-season.
The library was built in 1897 to a design by Philadelphia architect John M. Burns, and is one of the finest examples of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in southern Maine. The building was enlarged in 1914 to a design by Henry A. Macomb, also of Philadelphia; the quality of design and execution make it virtually impossible to distinguish the addition from the original. The library was the gift of Philadelphia resident Mrs. George Conarroe in honor of her husband
I then drove on into Perkins Cove, but could not find nary a parking space- so I headed back up to the town of Ogunquit parked, and strolled a bit, then on to home.
I stopped in at the office, and discovered that Bette's medical supplies had been safely delivered to the office at the campground! Scratch that off the list.
Bette has gone off to lunch and shopping with her new girl friends, so I'm all alone for the rest of the afternoon looks like.
Didn't go to Portland today as I thought I would, since the map museum is not open on Mondays. Rescheduled for Friday.
Tomorrow is a short trip up to Alfred Maine nearby.
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