Summit Tavern, Cadillac Mt., Acadia National Park, Me. 1101

Summit Tavern, Cadillac Mt., Acadia National Park, Me. 1101

"Summit Tavern, Cadillac Mt., Acadia National Park, Me. 1101" "The Summit Tavern, Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Me. 1101." Buildings have stood at Cadillac's summit for more than 150 years. The first was staff quarters for the 1854 U.S. Coast Survey triangulation station. The rough path used to transport equipment attracted summit visitors, and soon the Brewer family, who owned much of the mountain, turned the route into a toll road and built a small hotel. The hotel burned in 1884, and investors in the cog railway, then going up Cadillac, built the Green Mountain House, which could lodge 50 guests and feed 100. It was razed in 1896. After the new summit road opened, the National Park Service constructed bathrooms, a ranger station, and a restaurant. Acadia Corporation, the park's concessionaire, ran the restaurant and gift shop in the photo until 2013. During World War II the U.S. Army established a radar station at the summit and used the Tavern as barracks. The road and summit reopened in 1945, and the buildings at the summit were dismantled. "Sunset Overlook" is the location of the old radar station. In 1983 the National Park Service built the current summit building an identical one at Thunder Hole in the same style as the old ranger station.