Back cover of a promotional folder. From the collection of the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord, NH.



Around the beginning of the 20th century, the Chateau de Lis hotel was built.



The hotel was expanded and renamed the Hotel Samoset around the mid 1920's. The photo below shows that while the tallest part of the original structure remained, a 2-story wing had been added to the left and a 2-story wing and a 1-story parlor had been added to the right of the main building. The separate building on the left of the photo may or may not have been part of the Hotel.



The Hotel Samoset was located between Allan and Morris Avenues, right off of Centenary Avenue, in the Methodist Campground section of Weirs Beach. Morris Avenue separated the main hotel, on the right in the photo below, from the 6-room Annex, on the left.



A close examination of the above two photos seems to indicate that the first photo seems to have been taken downhill from the building looking up Morris Avenue, while the second photo was taken uphill of the building looking down Morris Avenue.

On December 29, 1931, the Annex (below) was destroyed by fire. The main hotel continued in operation until 1954. Later, it became to be known as Locke's Manor. It burned down on March 18, 1984.