Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery
User: Harrisonia Hotel – Lowell, Massachusetts
Distributor: Mitchell Woodbury Company
Date of examples: circa 1915-1923

Dining Room at the Harrisonia Hotel

Harrisonia Hotel Bar

Drawing from 1917 of the Harrisonia Hotel

Cole's Inn

View of site in 2020 where the Harrisonia Hotel was located

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Notes: The Harrisonia Hotel, at 17-21 Central Street in Lowell, Massachusetts, was built around 1915. An illustration in the 1917 Hotel Red Book shows it as a seven-story building. A 1919 postcard mentions a "Rathskeller, Dutch Room and handsome dining rooms." Another postcard shows a bar, which may have been the "Rathskeller."

By 1923, the name had been changed to Cole's Inn. An undated postcard shows Cole's as a five-story building, so it may have never been taller than five-stories. In 2020, this incredible shrinking building was only two-stories. But the original second floor windows, which were probably part of the Harrisonia dining room, remain.

Maddock made the Harrisonia Hotel china service that is crested with a multi-color decal featuring a Native American chief.  The blue decal border is Maddock border #6096. Mitchell Woodbury Company was the distributor.

Source:
Google Maps – 2020 photo

Contributor:
Author and photos: Larry Paul