Hotel de Haro
Posted June 1, 2016 at 5:56 am by Tim Dustrude
The Sunset Suite at Roche Harbor’s Hotel de Haro, circa 1900 – SJ Museum photo
Here’s this month’s history column from the San Juan Historical Society…
This month’s peek into the past shows us a relatively rare interior photograph from about 1900. This scene shows two people relaxing in what is now the Sunset Suite of the Hotel de Haro at Roche Harbor, which is celebrating its 130th birthday this year. We wish we had a photo taken inside the hotel that first year of 1886, but we don’t think there is one.
Roche Harbor has more recently expanded its dedication to the preservation of island history to include generous financial support and donation of lime works artifacts to the San Juan Historical Society’s new “museum within a museum,” the Museum of History and Industry (MHI).
Come visit the MHI, a work in progress (and much progress has been made!), on the grounds of the San Juan Historical Museum.
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Categories: Community, History
2 comments:
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Cool! And a piano, no less! Is there a photo of what the suite looks like now??
Photos of the newly remodeled Sunset Suite have been posted by Roche Harbor on their Facebook page. Look in their photo album for the Hotel de Haro. The photos posted on Trip Advisor, etc. were taken prior to the suite’s new look.
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