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THURSDAY
JUNE 2, 2005
Harbor
Historic neighborhood once known as ‘Riviera-to-be’
BY BENNIE SHALLBETTER Staff Writer
ack when Clermont Harbor was being promoted in New Orleans as the Riveria-to-be, Charles Hopkins bought fourteen lots along the beach for $3,853.62, an exorbitant amount in 1913. The site would become the location of the Clermont Harbor Hotel. In September of 1915 the hotel had its first bout with a hurricane, sustaining heavy damage. In 1926 the reconstructed hotel had another grand opening on the Fourth of July.
When the hotel reopened in 1946 after yet one more renovation, it was lined with oleander bushes and the rooms sported new mattresses stuffed with Spanish moss. They must have added fuel to the fire that destroyed the building early on June 2 of that same year, just one day after Russel Guerin’s father Wilfred realized his lifelong dream of opening the hotel again.
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