Hanover Hotel, Winter Harbor Me. 200.

Hanover Hotel, Winter Harbor Me. 200.

Hanover Hotel, Winter Harbor Me. Hotel Hanover This was a busy hotel on Main Street in the early days. Later it became a rooming house. It's said that when it got cold enough, people who lived in places where they had to walk quite a ways to town would move in for the winter. Conney, the town clerk, and his mother and father would live there because bad snowstorms would prevent him for getting to work if he was too far away. The town band used to rehearse and play up on the balcony. In the late 1800s there was a diphtheria epidemic, and the hotel was turned into a hospital. Dr. Pendleton lived right next door. When the Channing Chapel, which is right behind this building, was dedicated, many people stayed at the hotel and ate in the dining room. The house on the right is the Hooper House; Mr. Hooper sold it to Mr. Morrison, who owned Morrison Chevrolet in Ellsworth. It was taken down to make room for the right-of-way for the Channing Chapel. (Channing Chapel is now the library.) The Hanover Hotel building still stands, but the porches have been removed. It is now an apartment house.