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Northshore October 2025
The newly restored 12th- and 13th-century French cloister arches overlooking the sprawling coastline may be one of the most Instagrammable spots in town, but Gloucester’s Hammond Castle Museum goes far beyond the flash of an iPhone. Tucked deep inside the medieval-style residence built by inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. is a subterranean space known as the War Room. Inside, you’ll find Eric Pape’s 22-foot mural, “The Wireless Naval Battle of Gloucester Bay,” which depicts the Imperial German Navy attacking Gloucester in the First World War. While the story the 1918 mural tells may not be real, the American artist and former Cape A
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