Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Catalog Number |
1999.0001.0001 |
Description |
Color view of main Street, Waynesboro, VA, showing new Neese Hotel Excerpt from "A History of Waynesboro, Virginia" by George Hawke, "The brick Neese Hotel was constructed in 1906 for John H. Neese. It was located at 524-528 West Main Street. The first floor was designed for retail stores and the upper three floors were hotel rooms and offices. Narrow balconies extended out toward Main St. from the second and third floors." "By the 1920s the Neese had become the Park [Hotel], but J.H. Neese was still the proprietor..." "Mr. Neese sold the Park Hotel to Earle Driver Etter, who renamed it again--this time it was the Earle. Etter eventually sold the hotel to T.W. Quesenbery, who named it the Quesenbery Building, then no longer a hotel. The ground floor of the building was wide enough for two stores. At first the right side was the J.M. Neese Jewelry Store (the owner's second business). Later it became Western Auto Associates, then American Finiance Co. and Fenwick Mortgage Corp. The left side housed, successively, Waynesboro Electric Co., Modern Furniture Co. and Brooks Sporting Goods (Hawke, p.27-28)." |
Title |
New Neese Hotel |
Collection |
Waynesboro City Collection |