Sept 18 2010 Park View Hotel

My uncle has been doing research on a seaside hotel in NJ that was owned by my maternal great-grandmother.  She was my grandfather's mother.  I think it's really interesting that so long ago, this woman owned a business.  That must have been very unusual for that time.  An entrepreneurial spirit must run in the family...my grandfather was a self-employed artist's agent in NYC and I have been running a business of one kind or another since my early 20's. Both of my brothers have owned businesses as well.

Here is a picture taken in front of the hotel, we think sometime in the late 1800's.  I love the costumes!  They must have been having a Halloween or masquerade party. There are 2 hotel names in the pictures, some say "Park View Hotel" other pictures say "Epworth House"; my mom thinks there may have been 2 hotels but she's not sure. .