Colonial Inn -- Windsor Hotel and High Street, Belfast, Maine B2

Colonial Inn -- Windsor Hotel and High Street, Belfast, Maine B2

"Colonial Inn -- Windsor Hotel and High Street, Belfast, Maine B2" Street Scene, Belfast Maine, Windsor Hotel, Colonial Inn, 1949, High Street The Windsor Hotel opened circa 1850 as the New England House. The name was later changed to the Windsor House Inn . It featured its own stable located next to the Masonic Building. The building was originally constructed in 1809 as a private home by Benjamin Eells. The annex began life as a tenement owned by J, Y. McClintock. It became the Windsor Annex when it was purchased from McClintock in 1912 by the Dunton Brothers. All 30 guests and patrons escaped without injury when the Windsor Hotel and annex burned to the ground in 1960. Next is The Colonial which was located at the corner of High Street and Spring Street with the Windsor Hotel & and its annex adjacent to the north. The Inn's proprietor was Giambatista Marsano and later, his son Alton. Giambatista operated a fruit market on the north side of lower Main Street for many years and was said to have sold the first banana in Belfast. Features of the Inn: Rooms for $1.00 per night, $1.50 with shower and bath. The restaurant offered lobster, clams, steaks and chops, quick lunches, 50 cent dinner specials & Pickwick Ale This photo appears to be in 1937 (license plate in the foreground) Built in the 1850s, it was consumed by fire in early September, 1958. 6 perished in the fire that had begun around a ventilator shaft in the coffee shop and spread through a false ceiling. It was the largest loss of life in a fire in Belfast at the time. To the left of the Windsor beginning across Main Street one can see the Clark Real Estate & Insurance Agency and then on the near side of Main Street at the corner, is the Masonic Temple Building which also houses the Merrill Trust Company and the James Pattee & Son Real Estate & Insurance Company. Next is G. W. Achorn's Department Store which opened in 1939 followed Pendleton's, offering lunches, sundries, information and serving (in addition to the Windsor Hotel) as a depot for the Maine Central Bus Co.