Ellis; the other part presently provides a home for Beverley (Boates) Makin and her family.

THE MATTHEW HOTEL

The Matthew Hotel was another of the numerous hotels set up to accommodate the many visitors to O’Leary. The original house was built by Henry Willis Turner about 1910. The architectural structure of the house was magnificent to say the least. This is evident from the picture provided by the late Tom Matthew of Glover’s Shore, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Matthew.

Matthew Hotel - 1923

The house itself had eight bedrooms, two living rooms, a back and front stairway, and separate quarters for the servants. Each bed- room on the third floor was perfectly square and each had a separate closet. All the closets were connected by a hidden passageway which traversed the perimeter of the building making it possible to travel from one room to another unseen. The house also contained three marble fireplaces - one in each of the living rooms and one in the master bedroom. The living rooms were separated by large sliding wooden doors. There were two separate staircases; one in the front of the house for guests and one in the rear for the servants. Two of the

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