Heart of A Town: Main Street in Paris

The 1917 newspaper supplement that was the source for this picture of the Fordham Hotel also contained some information about the establishment that “is enjoying an unprecedented run under the able management of Mr. Dan Conners and his estimable wife.” The logical assumption would be that Mr. Conners is the man standing in front of the rest of the hotel staff holding a child, and Mrs. Conners is looking down from the window above with another of their progeny. At that time the hotel had been under the Conners’ management for nine years, which their ad states proudly: “speaks eloquently of its success.” It had 30 guest chambers, a barber shop and café. It burned down in the 1930’s and was replaced with the current Baldwin Hotel building.