The Penobscot Exchange

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1 Bangor Public Library Bangor Community: Digital Books and Publications Special Collections 1897 The Penobscot Exchange Fred G. Moon James W. Cratty Follow this and additional works at: Recommended Citation Moon, Fred G. and Cratty, James W., "The Penobscot Exchange" (1897). Books and Publications This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at Bangor Community: Digital It has been accepted for inclusion in Books and Publications by an authorized administrator of Bangor Community: Digital For more information, please contact

5 BANGOR. MAINE. MOON & CRATTY, PROPRIETORS FROM all logical standpoints, it would seem that the "leading hotel" in a place must be the one whose service is so excellent as to lead guests to come again. It is on this basis that the Penobscot Exchange has come to be popularly known as the leading hotel in Bangor.

6 Two Views of the Oflic~

7 Everything in and about the house, and everything connected with the service is of the order that makes guests want to come again. The " up to the minute" idea prevails everywhere in the Exchange, from basement to top floor, from parlor to kitchen, and even down to the railroad stations where the Exchange hacks meet all trains. The Penobscot Exchange is a big house, only a block away from the Eastern railway station where all traffic goes out of Bangor to the north and east. It has 150 rooms, all handsomely furnished and made attractive and comfortable in every way. Nearly every room has its own private bath and shower. Upper floor rooms are j nst as accessible as the first, thanks to a prompt elevator service. Neat and commodious writing desks offer convenient facilities for correspondence in the privacy of one's own room, although there are ten large individual desks always ready

8 The I >ining Room

9 for use in the public writing room on the ground floor. The Exchange has a beautifu11y furnished ladies' parlor; a commodious reading room; large and well lighted sample rooms; and other special apartments for the convenience of its guests. Also an office of splendid size, handsomely appointed, comfortably furnished, with a hospitable and huge fireplace taking up nearly one-half of one encl of the room. Then there is the spacious dining hall of theexchange; a most attractive, most" appetizing" room, where an unsurpassed cuisine and service are maintained all the year around. All of which is most important, for nothing is so discomforting to the traveling public as poor food and poor table service. The fact that the Exchange has just been newly fitted and furnished is another strong point in its favor as a hostelry of the most modern sort.

10 A Pleasant Chamber on the Second

You are glad to know these things, of course; glad to know that Bangor has such an enterprising, progressive hotel, and that it is so admirably able to satisfy the public's every desire.

11 You are glad to know these things, of course; glad to know that Bangor has such an enterprising, progressive hotel, and that it is so admirably able to satisfy the public's every desire. But you will be even more glad when you have stopped with us a while, and made an actual test of our hospitality. Our door swings in. The splendid equipment of our whole house is here to give you satisfaction. Our hacks meet all trains. Rates. $2.00 to $4.00 per Day. MOON & CRATTY, PROPRIETORS, E.xchange Street, BANGOR, MAINE.

12 A Commodious Suite

13 The Ladies' Parlor

14 !. The '"'"riting Room The }{eading.room

15 It's Handsome; It's Homelike: It's ()uite Ideal

16 One of the Exchange's Cosiest Suites

17 An Attractive Lower Floor Chamber

18 Newly Furnished; Pretty, Isn't It?

19 A Cosy Corner Room

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