March 11, 2024
Antique Hotel Traymore Silver Electro Plate Bread Tray 11" Gorham Silver
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Antique Hotel Traymore Silver Electro Plate Oval Dish 11” Gorham Silver, Atlantic City BoardwalkThis oval serving dish features a raised logo of the Hotel Traymore--a lighthouse (or maybe the hotel’s tower?)--on the inner edge on one side. Engraved on the bottom is “Hotel Traymore, G M Co [anchor in a shield] ,E P, 02340. ” The Hotel Traymore was originally a 10 room boarding house on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. In 1884, it was destroyed by a storm; when it was rebuilt, the owner moved it back from the Boardwalk and expanded it to 117 rooms—this time with indoor plumbing and bathrooms, hot and cold fresh AND salt water baths, and elevators. It was expanded to 450 rooms in 1898. A tower was added in 1906, closer to the Boardwalk. It was considered the finest hotel in Atlantic City, until the owner’s cousin opened the new Marlborough-Blenhein Hotel nearby. In 1915, in response to the competition, Daniel White, the owner of Hotel Traymore, replaced the wood frame hotel with a magnificent concrete structure with wings that afforded more ocean views to guests, 14 stories high. It was called the Taj Mahal of Atlantic City, and remained popular into the 1950s. Atlantic City declined in the 1960s with the advent of in-home air conditioning and cheaper air travel to Florida and the Caribbean, and in 1974, the Hotel Traymore was demolished.
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