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Article: Monte Cristo Hotel, $50,000, an expensive early venture.
- Article from:
- Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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In the days of Everett's infancy, as East Coast money established a city on the shores of Port Gardner Bay virtually overnight, one grand hotel belied the community's upstart ways by providing luxury lodging to venture capitalists and elegant social surroundings to the local elite.
Named for the mining town that had sparked the speculators' convergence on this area, the Monte Cristo Hotel was built in 1892 on a hill at Pacific and Kromer avenues overlooking the bay and the stump-lined streets of Everett.
A souvenir program, published for the opening of the present Monte Cristo Hotel in 1925, describes in poetic terms, the climate surrounding the ...