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Northshore October 2025
Historic Hotel is 85 years young in 2010Salem, MA-"And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history," said American soul performer Edwin Starr. Celebrating 85 years as a legend on the North Shore in 2010, Hawthorne Hotel certainly knows what it is like to have some history!Beginning in 1923, the Salem Chamber of Commerce and the Salem Rotary began arrangements to build a "modern hotel for Salem." After more than half a million dollars worth of stock was sold, construction began on the hotel, designed by architect Philip Horton Smith. At the time, it was the largest Colonial Revival struct
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