Engleside Hotel

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The Engleside Hotel was one of the most elegant hotels of the Victorian era . It stood on the beach in Beach Haven , New Jersey on the south end of Long Beach Island . It was built by Quakers in the early 1870s and quickly became one of the most famous hotels on the island.

The Engleside Hotel experienced its first economic crisis in the summer of 1916, during the shark attacks on the New Jersey coast (1916) . The end of the hotel came during World War II when the hotel was demolished and parts of its furnishings were sold.

literature

  • Michael Capuzzo: Close to Shore: A True Story of Terror in an Age of Innocence , Broadway Books, New York 2001, ISBN 0-7679-0413-3