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| Answers: (1) The U.S.S. Grand View Point Ship Hotel 17 miles west of Bedford, Pennsylvania along side the Lincoln Highway (2) 2464 ft (3) It burned down on October 26, 2001 at 2:30 am. |
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I enjoyed a Lincoln Highway quiz! And my original line of Hindmans were from
Pennsylvania, so it was interesting as well. I went to Google Earth to try to see if you
could see the site of the rubble (couldn't), but noted that there was a Hyndman Road
there. Close, but no cigar. Evan Hindman
It looks like it was a great place. We had a similar "theme" hotel in my hometown,
Meridian, MS, when I was growing up. It had also gone the way of all those other
great little places that thrived before the interstate highway system and died after. Ours
was a motel any Renaissance fair would have loved to have used. It was a motor court
"Castle" with a great dining hall. The walls twisted and curved and there were small
turrets on the corners and the rooms were located along the walls. I'll try to remember
the name and find some pics. Rick Norman
Pennsylvania, so it was interesting as well. I went to Google Earth to try to see if you
could see the site of the rubble (couldn't), but noted that there was a Hyndman Road
there. Close, but no cigar. Evan Hindman
It looks like it was a great place. We had a similar "theme" hotel in my hometown,
Meridian, MS, when I was growing up. It had also gone the way of all those other
great little places that thrived before the interstate highway system and died after. Ours
was a motel any Renaissance fair would have loved to have used. It was a motor court
"Castle" with a great dining hall. The walls twisted and curved and there were small
turrets on the corners and the rooms were located along the walls. I'll try to remember
the name and find some pics. Rick Norman
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The S.S. Grand View Ship Hotel, affectionately
known as The Ship, sat perched on the side of
the Allegheny Mountains, 17 miles west of
Bedford, Pennsylvania along side the Lincoln
Highway. Dutch immigrant, Herbert Paulson
purchased the 13-acre site in 1923 for $3,200
and opened his first roadside stand, but this was
not an ordinary roadside stop. At an elevation of
2464 feet one could view 3 states and 7 counties
from this point.
Mr. Paulson, who originally worked as a tool and
die make in Pittsburgh, received some resistance
from state officials who believed there was a real
danger that anything he constructed on this site
might slide off the mountain. His determination
won out when told the state "It's my property,
either you let me build it or you buy the property!"
The very next year, Paulson enlarged his roadside
stand using a castle theme to build a new 4-story
structure. The three floors, which hung down the
mountainside, featured hotel rooms and vehicle
storage while the top floor included an
observation deck restaurant and gift shop. Three
I-beams installed under the roadside and 18 steel
piers anchored 30 feet into the ground held the
building to the ledge.
Some may have been satisfied with this feat, but
Paulson decided to enlarge again and began to
imagine a ship perched on the side of the
mountain and how the fog in valleys below
looked very much like the sea. The "Captain"
hired two men who happened to be hunting
nearby, Emilo Rosso and Louis Franci and
together they started constructing the Ship Hotel
over top of the Castle. Contractors were brought
in from Turtle Creek to set 63.5 tons of steel in
place for the base. The cost of this ambitious
endeavor was $125,000. Paulson also added a 5th
floor for fourteen 'first class' hotel rooms. The
lower floors were now called 'second class' and
steerage.
The Ship quickly became famous - a landmark
along the nations first highway. Her log boasted
of the famous celebrities who stayed there: Clara
Bow, George Burns, Joan Crawford, Thomas
Edison, Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish,
Tom Mix, J.P. Morgan George Raft and Mary
Pickford along with visitors from every state and
72 foreign countries. The hotel could
accommodate 49 guests. For locals it was 'The'
fancy place to go for dinner, proms and other
important celebrations.
Business along old Route 30, including the Ship,
suffered dramatically as more and more drivers
began using the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Five
years after Herbert Paulson's death in 1973, his
family sold the Ship Hotel for $70,000 to Jack
and Mary Loya, locals who lived about half a mile
down the hill. The Loyas tried to revitalize the
property by renaming it "Noah's Ark," covering
its metal surface with brown wood, and adding a
petting zoo, but the venture fizzled. The Ship
closed to the public in 1987 and soon began to
deteriorate.
In June 1993, a new Lincoln Highway
Association held its charter conference in nearby
Bedford. Five years later, officials of
Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway Heritage
Corridor proposed to buy the Ship Hotel for its
appraised value of about $40,000, and raise up to
$2 million in federal, state and local preservation
grants to restore the Ship to its former glory.
Jack Loya responded by demanding $900,000 for
the decaying shell of his long-closed business.
The impasse continued, as did the Ship's
deterioration, hastened by a series of squatters
who periodically occupied the building. To deter
further intrusion, Loya kept a light burning and a
television on inside the abandoned Ship. The
long-abandoned gas station across the road was
faring no better.
Finally, on Friday, October 26, at 2:30 am
firemen responded to a report that the Ship was
in flames. Witnesses reported seeing a ball of fire
on the mountainside as the Ship burnt to the
ground. Nine fire companies responded to the call.
But they were too late. The old structure burned
so quickly that one fireman described the scene
as "like the sun was coming up." Instead of
$40,000, the greedy Loya got nothing -- the
property wasn't insured. Now only rubble and
twisted metal remain of what was once an icon
of the Lincoln Highway..
Special thanks to: Martin Aurand, Architecture
Librarian and Archivist, CMU; Brian Butko,
Editor of the Historical Society of Western
Pennsylvania; Helen Russian - Central City
Historical Society; Olga Herbert - Executive
Director, Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor
known as The Ship, sat perched on the side of
the Allegheny Mountains, 17 miles west of
Bedford, Pennsylvania along side the Lincoln
Highway. Dutch immigrant, Herbert Paulson
purchased the 13-acre site in 1923 for $3,200
and opened his first roadside stand, but this was
not an ordinary roadside stop. At an elevation of
2464 feet one could view 3 states and 7 counties
from this point.
Mr. Paulson, who originally worked as a tool and
die make in Pittsburgh, received some resistance
from state officials who believed there was a real
danger that anything he constructed on this site
might slide off the mountain. His determination
won out when told the state "It's my property,
either you let me build it or you buy the property!"
The very next year, Paulson enlarged his roadside
stand using a castle theme to build a new 4-story
structure. The three floors, which hung down the
mountainside, featured hotel rooms and vehicle
storage while the top floor included an
observation deck restaurant and gift shop. Three
I-beams installed under the roadside and 18 steel
piers anchored 30 feet into the ground held the
building to the ledge.
Some may have been satisfied with this feat, but
Paulson decided to enlarge again and began to
imagine a ship perched on the side of the
mountain and how the fog in valleys below
looked very much like the sea. The "Captain"
hired two men who happened to be hunting
nearby, Emilo Rosso and Louis Franci and
together they started constructing the Ship Hotel
over top of the Castle. Contractors were brought
in from Turtle Creek to set 63.5 tons of steel in
place for the base. The cost of this ambitious
endeavor was $125,000. Paulson also added a 5th
floor for fourteen 'first class' hotel rooms. The
lower floors were now called 'second class' and
steerage.
The Ship quickly became famous - a landmark
along the nations first highway. Her log boasted
of the famous celebrities who stayed there: Clara
Bow, George Burns, Joan Crawford, Thomas
Edison, Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish,
Tom Mix, J.P. Morgan George Raft and Mary
Pickford along with visitors from every state and
72 foreign countries. The hotel could
accommodate 49 guests. For locals it was 'The'
fancy place to go for dinner, proms and other
important celebrations.
Business along old Route 30, including the Ship,
suffered dramatically as more and more drivers
began using the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Five
years after Herbert Paulson's death in 1973, his
family sold the Ship Hotel for $70,000 to Jack
and Mary Loya, locals who lived about half a mile
down the hill. The Loyas tried to revitalize the
property by renaming it "Noah's Ark," covering
its metal surface with brown wood, and adding a
petting zoo, but the venture fizzled. The Ship
closed to the public in 1987 and soon began to
deteriorate.
In June 1993, a new Lincoln Highway
Association held its charter conference in nearby
Bedford. Five years later, officials of
Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway Heritage
Corridor proposed to buy the Ship Hotel for its
appraised value of about $40,000, and raise up to
$2 million in federal, state and local preservation
grants to restore the Ship to its former glory.
Jack Loya responded by demanding $900,000 for
the decaying shell of his long-closed business.
The impasse continued, as did the Ship's
deterioration, hastened by a series of squatters
who periodically occupied the building. To deter
further intrusion, Loya kept a light burning and a
television on inside the abandoned Ship. The
long-abandoned gas station across the road was
faring no better.
Finally, on Friday, October 26, at 2:30 am
firemen responded to a report that the Ship was
in flames. Witnesses reported seeing a ball of fire
on the mountainside as the Ship burnt to the
ground. Nine fire companies responded to the call.
But they were too late. The old structure burned
so quickly that one fireman described the scene
as "like the sun was coming up." Instead of
$40,000, the greedy Loya got nothing -- the
property wasn't insured. Now only rubble and
twisted metal remain of what was once an icon
of the Lincoln Highway..
Special thanks to: Martin Aurand, Architecture
Librarian and Archivist, CMU; Brian Butko,
Editor of the Historical Society of Western
Pennsylvania; Helen Russian - Central City
Historical Society; Olga Herbert - Executive
Director, Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor
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| U.S.S. Grand View Ship Hotel http://www.miniaturerailroad.com/shiphotel.html http://www.roadsidephotos.com/LH/grandview3.htm |
| First Permanent Structure at the site of the Grand View Point Hotel c. 1923 |
| First hotel on the site c. 1924 |
| Original gas station c. 1924 |
| Aerial view of hotel, undated. |
| View of the prow, 1933 |
| Hotel in disrepair in the 1990s. http://www.ronsaari.com/stockImages... |
| Original gas station in the 1990s. |
| Nothing left after the fire. |
Read the newspaper article in
the Post Gazette about the Grand
View Hotel buring down, October
27, 2001:
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20011027ship1027p2.asp
the Post Gazette about the Grand
View Hotel buring down, October
27, 2001:
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20011027ship1027p2.asp
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| Grand View Point Hotel, 1957 http://www.charlesphoenix.com/2005-05-05/ |
| For Further Reading |
| Along Pennsylvania's Lincoln Highway by Richard W Funk Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (August 28, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0738545112 ISBN-13: 978-0738545110 Read more on Google Books. Click here. |
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| The Paper House Rockport, MA Another Odd Attraction of Interest http://www.paperhouserockport.com/index.html |
The Paper House is an actual house made from newspaper. It
was built by Mr. Elis F. Stenman, a mechanical engineer who
designed the machines that make paper clips, began building
his Rockport summer home out of paper as a hobby. That
was in 1922.
The paper was meant to be good insulation. Eventually, not
only was the house made of paper, but furniture as well,
including some intricate and beautiful pieces.
Read more...
was built by Mr. Elis F. Stenman, a mechanical engineer who
designed the machines that make paper clips, began building
his Rockport summer home out of paper as a hobby. That
was in 1922.
The paper was meant to be good insulation. Eventually, not
only was the house made of paper, but furniture as well,
including some intricate and beautiful pieces.
Read more...
(Top) The Paper House
from the street; (Bottom)
A piano made out of paper
from the street; (Bottom)
A piano made out of paper
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| Read the Post Gazette story (Nov. 15, 1998) on the failed negotiations between the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor and the Loyas for the sale and restoration of the Grand View Point Hotel. Click here. |
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