1/5/2023 0 Comments Safe harbour 2007![]() In 1985, the building was considered for use as a long-term shelter, and was then purchased in 1985 to become the current day Safe Harbour. Swartz deemed the hotel suitable to know hold its original owner’s name and so it became the “The James Wilson Hotel.” At some point after being named “The James Wilson Hotel” and before becoming Safe Harbour, Inc., the establishment turned from a hotel to a rooming house. He put air conditioning in the building and returned the exterior to its original brick facade. In 1938 Beauford Swartz became the owner of the hotel and decided to modernize. The sons of Raymond Shearer took over the hotel after their father’s death, and in 1917 they renamed it “The Argonne” for the Argonne forest in France where they had seen military service. The ownership of the hotel changed many times between the years of 18 when Raymond Shearer purchased the property. ![]() During the Civil War period, the hotel registers include signatures from many Union Army Officers who would travel back and forth to the Carlisle Barracks. From 1839 to 1851, when Joseph Patton purchased the hotel, the proprietors of the hotel changed numerous times. Bell ran “The Mansion House” for 20 years. ![]() The hotel changed ownerships quite frequently until James Bell took possession of the hotel in 1819 and renamed it “The Mansion House”. In 1808, James Nobel purchased the “White Hall” and he called it the “Carlisle Hotel”. In 1792, James Pollock acquired the inn from David Caldwell. Wilson named his home “White Hall” after the Court of Request in London. Before the time of the hotel, the building started as the law offices and home of James Wilson, Esq., a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The James Wilson Facility served as a hotel starting in 1775 by David Caldwell, who named the inn “White Hall”. ![]() Safe Harbour continues to grow and change within this historic building. It has been home to a variety of establishments, including law offices, hotels, a rooming house and now a shelter. ![]() The building was not always a shelter for the homeless. The James Wilson Facility houses Short-Term Emergency and Long-Term Temporary Housing, and some Permanent Housing. ![]()
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