Newbern, Gaston House Hotel

Newbern, Gaston House Hotel

New Bern (N.C.)

Gaston House Hotel (New Bern, N.C.)

Hotels--North Carolina--New Bern

William Pell Ballance & Co.

Grocers--North Carolina--New Bern

Streets--North Carolina--New Bern--South Front Street--300 block

Image of the Gaston House Hotel and Wm. Pell Ballance Co., Wholesale Grocers, located on the South side of South Front Street (current 300 block). The merchant firm of Devereaux, Chester and Orme originally built the building in the early 1800s. It became a hotel in the 1850s, changing its name to The Hotel Governor Tryon in its later years. A fire destroyed the hotel on 2 Nov 1965. [Information from John Green III, A New Bern Album (New Bern: Tryon Palace Commission, 1985), p. 90-91.]
Reed further describes the photograph as, "The Gaston House, New Berne.--Originally built for a pork curing, packing, and store house, at the head of a wharf; the passage to the wharf being through an archway, where is now the main entrance to the hotel. Apparently there has been no change in twenty-two years. 'Mac' thought he recognized a broken pane of glass as being the same one that he noticed when on guard in front of the hotel in May, 1863."

Reed, William Garrison, 1842-1929

October 1884

William Garrison Reed Photo Album Collection

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English

Photographs

Photo.XXV.14

New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina

Photographs

7-13/16x6 inches (199x150 mm)