Building Notes

Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.'s book, Summer by the Seaside, said this of the Pavilion Hotel in Gloucester: "Gloucester's first conspicuous, bon fide resort hotel...was the Pavilion Hotel (later called the 'Surfside,'), erected west of the center of the city between April and June 1849. Located on Western Avenue at Crescent Beach overlooking the busy harbor, the Pavilion was conceived and funded by Gloucester native Sidney Mason, and was constructed by the contracting team of White and Winchester. Responsible for the design, modified in the final version of the building, was the obscure architect S. Charles Bugbee. first based in Boston and later in San Francisco. Documenting Bugbee's association with the project, along with newspaper sources, are preliminary elevation and floor plans, fortunately preserved in the archives of Gloucester's Cape Ann Historical Museum." (See Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.,, Summer by the Seaside, [Hanover, NH: University Pressof New England], 2008, p. 103)

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