Large building with wrap around porches on first and second floors, several people on the porch. At right are Frances Cleveland, husband and former president Grover Cleveland. Seated on the porch steps are (on right) Joseph Bryant (Cleveland's personal physician) and Hubert Bessey. Cleveland visited Stuart annually between 1900 and 1908 to enjoy the fishing.
Large building with wrap around porches on first and second floors. When Sarah Danforth died in 1901, Hubert Wilbur Bessey (1855-1918) and his wife, former schoolteacher Susan Corbin Bessey (1868-1954), were invited to take over the Danforth Hotel. Hubert Bessey led fishing trips, which were enjoyed by Grover Cleveland, who visited and stayed the hotel frequently. Duplicate of HSMC-2023-018-2-b1-067.
