Seaside Inn
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| hotel_name = Seaside Inn
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| location = Kennebunk, Maine
| address = 80 Beach Avenue, Kennebunk Beach
| coordinates = {{coord|43|20|55|N|70|28|45|W|display=inline}}
| opening_date = {{Start date and age|1667}}
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| developer = John Gooch
| owner = Trish and Ken Mason
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| number_of_rooms = 22
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| floors = 2
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| parking = none
| website = {{URL|http://www.kennebunkbeachmaine.com/seasideinn|www.kennebunkbeachmaine.com}}
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The Seaside Inn (formerly the Seaside Inn & Cottages) is an Inn in Kennebunk, Maine which has been in continuous operation under the same family since 1667, making it one of the oldest companies in the United States.
History
John Gooch, the first settler in the Cape Neddick area, arrived in the area 1637.{{cite web|first=Shelley |last=Wigglesworth |url=http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20091001-LIFE-910010351 |title=Inside the Seaside |publisher=SeacoastOnline.com |work=The Portsmouth Herald |date=October 1, 2009 |accessdate=January 10, 2013}} At some point, he established the Inn, and, by 1667, he was commissioned by Ferdinando Gorges, an agent of King Charles II, to "reside on the ocean-front peninsula at the mouth of the Kennebunk River and ferry travellers across the River."{{cite web|url=http://www.inc.com/ss/7-companies-older-america#4 |title=7 Companies Older Than America - number 4 |publisher=Inc. |date=July 3, 2012 |accessdate=January 10, 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.brickstoremuseum.org/fotk_20.html |title=FACES of the Kennebunks Online Exhibition |publisher=Brick Store Museum |date=January 1, 2004 |accessdate=January 10, 2013 |first=Liam |last=Crotty |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828233431/http://www.brickstoremuseum.org/fotk_20.html |archivedate=August 28, 2008 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-16897105.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409202647/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-16897105.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 9, 2016 |title=Kennebunkport is a logical halfway stop |publisher=HighBeam Research |work=New Haven Register |date=July 11, 2004 |accessdate=January 10, 2013 |last=Amatulli |first=Jodi}}{{Subscription required|date=January 2013}} The inn has been in continuous operation by the Gooch family since its inception. In 2018, it remained owned by John Gooch's twelfth-generation descendants.{{cite news|url=http://kennebunkbeachmaine.com/testimonials.htm |title=At the Seaside: Where Gooch first began to greet on the coast of Maine |first=Karen E |last=Olson |newspaper=New Haven Register |publisher=Seaside Inn official |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416200407/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-12600839.html |archivedate=April 16, 2018 |url-status=live}}
Literature
The early Gooch family history was chronicled in the 1929 novel Arundel by American author Kenneth Roberts.{{cite web|first=Joshua |last=Bodwell |url=http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120119/LIFE/201190351/-1/NEWSMAP |title=Innkeeper of local history, too |publisher=SeacoastOnline.com |work=The Portsmouth Herald |date=January 19, 2012 |accessdate=January 10, 2013}} Additionally, current owner Trish Mason has written a work of non-fiction entitled The Seaside House: Maine Innkeepers which tells the complete history of the family and running of the inn.
Awards
The inn was recognized by New England's Yankee Magazine as the Maine lodging with the "Best Family Ties" in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-05/travel/new-england-lodging/lodging-me |title=Maine Lodging 2009 |work=Yankee Magazine |date=May 28, 2009 |accessdate=January 10, 2013}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.kennebunkbeachmaine.com/seasideinn}}
Category:Buildings and structures in Kennebunkport, Maine