1900  The Maplewood Hotel facing Maplewood Avenue.  An early 1900s Spring view of Pittsfield’s most famous hotel, a rendezvous for tourists and the Summer home of many people of wealth and social prominence. Lemuel Pomeroy built here the “Gymnasium” and a school for  young men in 1829. In 1841, Rev. Wellington H. Tyler opened the Pittsfield Young Women’s Institute, which won a national reputation. In 1857, Rev. C. V. Spear purchased the personal property of the institute and in 1864 the grounds and buildings, for $27,000. For years he conducted the Maplewood Young Ladies’ Institute. Somewhat later, the property was given to Oberlin college and in 1890 Arthur W. Plumb bought the property. His ownership has seen the transformation of the buildings into a high class hotel with extensive new buildings and the beautifying of the grounds and environment.
Posted By: Administrator - 07-23-2008
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