Preservation Progress at InfoAge
Building 9001 - The Marconi Hotel Exterior
The Marconi Hotel is an inviting building today thanks to hard work by InfoAge members.
The hotel is looking fine in the fall 2006 front view.
A view of the hotel published in 1914
The north east corner of the hotel. Note the piazza. To the left is the corner of 9032 Section-A which we have repainted since this photo was taken. 1914 view under the piazza
Until 1996 the hotel exterior was well keep and ready for reuse.
From then on BRAC did not do any maintenance. They allowed the bushes, vines and trees to grow wild.
BRAC does not care to abide by Army cultural regulations 200, nor do they care about our nations history.
This how bad the BRAC office let the hotel go.
Where is the piazza?
A 1999 view of the hotel similar to the 1914 photo. A view of the hotel published in 1914
The historic hotel front west steps in 2000 where the WW2 radar officers stood for their 1943 group photo..
Camp Evans Officers on steps of Marconi Hotel - 1943.
Photo source: 1) Mr. John Marchetti 2) Mrs. Mary T. McGee
Camp Evans Officers on steps of Marconi Hotel - 1945.
Photo source: 1) Ms. Amelia Gubitosa
This is a 2000 view of the center entrance of the hotel. The same
entrance Sen. Joe McCarthy used when he visited on 1953.
< More details of McCarthys' visit.
Somewhere in the bushes is the former east
front entrance. When the dining room was divided into offices the
double door entrance was replaced with a window.
The piazza before Henry Stinga power washed it and the boards were
removed from the windows.
A 1914 view of the piazza.
The trees just kept getting higher as we asked to be allowed on the property to reduce our future work.
The back was a mess too. ...
This is the back cellar entrance doors. They were added during WW2. The building electric has been cut off, cutting power to the sump pumps. Rain water is filling the basement. We protested in writing and public meetings. Finally when winter cold arrived the pipes frooze and the real damage began.
Finally in 2004 BRAC allowed us on the property to clean-up....
Dave Snellman and Bernie Riccardi at work.
A close up of super Dave.
Dave Snellman, Steve Goulart and Bernie Riccardi.
This pile of bush would grow to four times this size before we were done.
Finally in March of 2006 we removed all the boards off the windows we
could reach.
Here is Henry Stinga on the ladder. Next he would go for
the 3rd story windows...Ahhhhh!