The Maplewood Hotel was built in Bethlehem in 1876 and burned on January 14, 1963. Originally the Maplewood “House” and then the Maplewood “Hotel”, at some point in the 1940’s, the Maplewood became the Maplewood “Club”.

There were many outbuildings, including the Maplewood Inn and the Maplewood Casino. The Maplewood even had its own train station. At the center of the aerial postcard (#13) in the photo gallery below, one can see the Maplewood Inn, which stood at a perpendicular from the main hotel.  The Maplewood “Casino” was not a gambling facility but an entertainment center containing a “good music hall with stage and settings, social room, reading room, billiard and pool rooms, and three bowling alleys.” This building still stands today. It is part of the Maplewood Golf Club and Inn.

The original Maplewood House, seen in an engraving in Bachelder’s 1873-1876 series of guidebooks, was replaced by a new Maplewood House, the initial name for the hotel.

A Maplewood Hotel brochure.