What Remains: the Afterlife of the Middlesex Hotel

The hotel in its prime.

Remains.

Following the downward spiral of its final thirty-plus years of operation, the abandoned Middlesex Hotel stood a decaying hulk in Concord Center for nearly two decades.

Finally, in 1900, four community-oriented Concordians (Stedman Buttrick, Edward Waldo Emerson, Richard F. Barrett, and Prescott Keyes) bought it and sold it to the Town of Concord. The site was designated for municipal purposes as part of the town’s celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Concord Fight, and the building was finally demolished.

The old Middlesex Hotel location serves today as a memorial park to honor Concordians who have died in wars from the 1940s to the present.