The “first-class and homelike” three-story Oakley Beach Hotel opened in Cambridge at the start of the 20th century. Visitors from other places took up residence in the 54 rooms where, proprietor J.H. Neal claimed, “every bedroom window afford[ed] a charming view of the ever changing marine panorama that [was] constantly passing” on the Choptank River. Locals dined in the cool, lofty public rooms and danced in the lantern-lit pavilion at the end of the 750-foot pier.
Fire destroyed the Oakley Beach Hotel on December 6, 1954.
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