The Marshall House stock certificate c1947 (York Harbor Maine)

Maine grand hotel collectible. Great vignette of an American Bald Eagle with wings spread. Unissued and not cancelled. Incorporated 1915 in York Harbor Maine, these certificates were used circa 1947 from issued examples. Measures approximately 11 x 8.5 inches.

The Marshall House was a grand hotel built on Stage Neck at the mouth of the York River. Nathaniel Grant Marshall acquired Stage Neck in 1871 and built the hotel on the cliffs. The first Marshall House was a four-story frame overlooking the harbor and York Harbor Beach. York’s unique summer tourist business was flourishing. Marshall doubled the size of the hotel in 1881.

Over the years, the first Marshall House was enlarged three times until it could accommodate 325 guests. It was the largest hotel complex in York. Its facilities included a telephone and telegraph office, a livery stable, a barber shop, billiard room and dance hall. The Marshall House’s own four horse drawn “bus” made two round trips daily to Portsmouth NH.

On January 25th, 1918, the first Marshall House burned to the ground in a fire that was said to have been visible from as far away as Portland, Maine. The hotel was originally a four-story wooden resort but was replaced with a red brick building in 1918. After the fire, Frank D. Marshall built a “fireproof” four story brick hotel on the same site.

The second Marshall House was larger and more opulent in its style and appointments. The complex included the hotel, cottages, a beach, heated pool, bath houses, two tennis courts and boat docking facilities. The closing and sale of the second Marshall House complex marked the end of the era of grand hotels in York. The Marshall family operated the hotel until 1958 before selling it to the Tufts family of North Carolina.

In 1971, a group of York Harbor residents obtained a bank loan of $1,250,000. Known as the “Stage Neck, Inc.”, the group bought the Marshall House Complex except for the tip of the island, which was retained by Richard Tufts, the last owner of the Marshall House. Stage Neck, Inc., led later by Charles L. Harding, demolished the complex and conceived a plan for forty condominium units and the Stage Neck Inn as we see them today. The Inn was owned by the Warwick family until 1981 when it was sold to Hal Field and Mark Foster.

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