{"id":1017,"date":"2018-07-22T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T20:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2018-07-22T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T20:57:39","slug":"history-the-depot-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/2018\/07\/22\/history-the-depot-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"History: The Depot Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Walker owned and operated the short-lived Depot Hotel, located across Commercial Street from the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad. He built a brewhouse in the basement of the hotel, ca. 1851. The forty-one-year-old Walker owned $1200 in real estate. While operating the hotel, Walker was also trying to sell his property in the village of Livermore Falls in 1851.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Walker<\/a><\/p>\n

John Walker set up a brewhouse in the basement of the Depot Hotel in 1851, across Commercial Street from the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad. F.W. Beers & Co., 1871. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.<\/p>\n

Walker\u2019s eighteen-year-old son, also John, was listed as a \u201cbarkeeper\u201d at the hotel. Another Walker living in the hotel\u2014Tristram N., age 28\u2014was listed as a \u201chack driver\u201d and a porter; it\u2019s unclear if he was related to John, but he too would try his hand at brewing in the following years<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear if the brewery ever fully got off the ground: the hotel was out of business by late 1851. An advertisement pitched to potential renters of the building noted the brewery, with \u201ctwo large rooms, large boilers set in brick, a never failing supply of pure water by an aquaduct; the whole well fitted up and in perfect order for a brewery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

See the precise location of the Depot Hotel on the<\/span> Maine Beer Map<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

\n \t\t\t\n\t
\n\t \t\t\t
\n\t\t
\n
\n \n
\n
\n\t\t\t\t

Sources:<\/span><\/p>

Will Anderson, The Great State of Maine Beer Book (Portland: Anderson & Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996), 28.<\/span><\/p>

Portland Daily Advertiser<\/span><\/i>, March 10, 1851.<\/span><\/p>

U.S. Census, 1850.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \t <\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Walker owned and operated the short-lived Depot Hotel, located across Commercial Street from the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad. He built a brewhouse in the basement of the hotel, ca. 1851. The forty-one-year-old Walker owned $1200 in real estate. While operating the hotel, Walker was also trying to sell his property in the village […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4379,"featured_media":1016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[921],"tags":[13458],"builder_content":"

Sources:<\/p>

Will Anderson, The Great State of Maine Beer Book (Portland: Anderson & Sons\u2019 Publishing Co., 1996), 28.<\/p>

Portland Daily Advertiser<\/i>, March 10, 1851.<\/p>

U.S. Census, 1850.<\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/mainebeer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}