Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object # |
2008.001.016 |
Object Name |
Digital photograph |
Description |
Wharf Village - The Edward Hamblin Cottage, called "Daddy's" in this real-photo view dating from the 1920s, was built in 1780 at 9 Main Street, where Hiller Street turns to the right to intersect with Main at the corner of the picket fence. As a rental property, the building housed a number of distinguished guests-including the author and journalist Richard Harding Davis, who rented rooms as his writing study (he wrote his novel Soldiers of Fortune here during the summer of 1895). The polar explorer Admiral Richard Byrd spent a summer in the cottage. And President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in residence here during treatments for polio by Dr. William MacDonald. 2nd digital photograph is a winter time view of the Hamblin Cottage. |
Search Terms |
Main Street 9 Postcard History of Marion |
People |
Hamblin, Edward Davis, Richard Harding Byrd, Richard Evelyn (Adm.) Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (Pres.) |
Date |
07/24/2010 |
Title |
Daddy's, Edward Hamblin Cottage, Marion, Mass. |
Accession number |
2008.001 |