In Recreation and Leisure

Many hotels and lodges owned guideboats for their guests to use locally. Paul Smith's Hotel on Lower St. Regis Lake was a large and fashionable wilderness resort. It had a large boathouse, a livery of many guideboats, and quarters for the many guides employed by the hotel.

This photo from around 1880 shows a number of guides and guideboats in front of the boathouse. Some of the guides appear to be performing maintenance on the boats.

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