Title

Prospect House Hotel On The Front

Date

ca 1975

Creator

Breton, Carol

Extent

36.12 x 25.45 cm

Is Part Of

Watercolour Collection

Description

en-CA Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Government of Canada Local Initiatives Grant AK 2403-9 1974 - 1975 ; Research by George Seibel ; This hotel was built by Saul Davis in 1847, it was used as a family residence as well as a hotel until he built Table Rock in 1854. In the days when the hotl was built, labourers were paid 45 cents a day, carpenters and stone masons received one dollar a day and lumber was ten dollars per thousand board feet. The building was torn down after the Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park Commission took over ;

Type

Still Image

Medium

Watercolour

Subject

Hotels

Front, the

Niagara Falls (Ont.) - City

Location

Canada

Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=102742

locator

WC 47

Rights

©Niagara Falls Public Library

Publisher

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation

Date Created

2005-02-16

Date Modified

2005-02-16