Wharf, Isle of Springs Me. 3.

Wharf, Isle of Springs Me. 3.

Wharf, Isle of Springs, Maine The main wharf looking south at Isle of Springs, Maine circa 1915. The wharf was originally built in the fall of 1887 with an updated design by George M. Coombs of Lewiston, Maine done in 1907. Twelve steamboats per day landed at the wharf during the summer season at the height of the steamboat era. The Pier Shed provided a waiting room and freight room for steamship luggage included ladies and gents bathrooms (Coombs 1889). It was later used as a locker room for boat gear before burning in 1964. Above the wharf on the shore is a long low building (Coombs 1891) which served as the early lobby for the Nekrangan Hotel and included two bowling alleys. The building later served as a post office and workshop for the island's superintendents before burning in 1969. On the shore at the beginning of the wharf is a building brought to the island by its then superintendent Erastus Jewett, who used it as his workshop. The building was removed by Jewett when he left the island in 1936 and moved to North Bath where it was destroyed by a winter storm in the late 1970s. On the hill above Jewett's workshop is the back or north side of the Nekrangan Hotel (1888-1934). The launch in the foreground is Jewett's ELEANOR.