The following engraving was published in 1875, in “Keyes’s Hand-Book of Northern and Western Pleasure Travel to the White and Franconia Mountains, St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers, The Northern Lakes, Montreal and Quebec, and the Great West”.

A description of the hotel from John B. Bachelder’s 1873, first edition of “Bachelder’s Illustrated Tourist Guide of the United States – Popular Resorts and How to Reach Them”.

This late 1860’s or early 1870’s stereoview below shows that the house was considerably altered and enlarged from its original form. When it was first built it did not have the distinctive turret.