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32 MAY/JUNE 2003
A CASTLE ON A HILL
which housed fine horses upon which guests could ride for miles on well-groomed bridle paths "over hilltops overlooking the water, and into shady recesses of primeval forests." By redirecting their focus, they successfully attracted an entirely new type of tourist. During the spring of 1928, management officially changed the name of the hotel to Pine Hills Club and began new advertising in an attempt to project their opulent facility as a "year-round recreation and vacation center providing all the sports of land and water." The change from being a grand hotel with absolutely splendid furnishings to a niche upper-scale sports club proved to be a good move. Had it not been for the stock market crash, the club likely would have enjoyed a long business life.
After the depression caused what was once the pride of the bay to suddenly fail, the entire property became the possession of some bonding interests. It stood idle and vacant for years. Briefly during World War II, the government leased it to house soldiers, but what was seen by some as a sign of life ended after only six months. It wasn't until nine years after the war ended, in 1954, that a ray of hope began to shine. A Catholic order purchased and renovated the structure to house a seminary for the training of priests of the Oblate Fathers. The site was renamed Our Lady of the Snows Scholasticate, and the once-luxurious hotel was for almost 15 years reincarnated as a religious sanctuary. But in 1968, the order consolidated its various campuses by moving to a new home at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. The hotel was shuttered once more.
In late 1986 and early 1987, against the hopes and wishes of those who remembered the former queen of hotels in her glory days and others who wished they could, the seven-story landmark of the bay was dismantled. Except for the brick-pillared entranceway that can still be seen alongside the Kiln-DeLisle Road, the once-regal Pine Hills Hotel, the triumph of an earlier era, is today only a faded memory.	«
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