1918-1920, undated
HAV-01-403-Z-L-404
GUSN-372700
This album contains black-and-white photographs primarily portraying members of Bowler, Royce, and Stace families between 1918 and 1920. Many of the photographs were taken around the homes then known as "High Cliffe Lodge" and "Twin Light Manor" in Gloucester, Massachusetts. There are 115 pages in the album and approximately 410 black-and-white photographs. People and places are identified in handwritten notations made in white ink.
The album shows family members and friends posing for the camera near homes, gardens, and the ocean. Photographs also depict family pets; cats and dogs, and other animals including ducks, turkeys, goats, and horses. Many pictures depict people pursuing summer-time leisure activities like fishing, dancing, golfing, horseback riding, and swimming. There are sets of pictures of people laughing and dressing up in costumes. A small set of photographs include images of the Twin Light swimming pool built on the edge of the ocean in September of 1920. Other photographs depict fishing and hunting trips in locations that include Canada, remote Maine rivers and lakes, and Florida fishing camps.
Names of people identified in the album include:
Alexander Bowler, Grace Bowler
John Bowler, Nancy Bowler, and infant Bewley Warrick
Harry (H.A.) Eaton, Elsie Eaton
Raymond (R.L.) Royce, Emma F. Royce, Carolyn B. Royce, Jack B. Royce of Gloucester and Brookline, Massachusetts.
Archie (A.K.) Stace, Harriet M. Stace
Also identified in the album: (in alphabetical order) Capt. Bickford, Shirley Bolton, Mildred Burnham and William Burnham (and baby Billy Burnham), Walter Croft and Mrs. Walter Croft, Mr. DeLaroach, Catherine and Peggy Harrison, Mary Kabley, Eric Kellstrand, Fred Newcomb and P.F. Newcomb, Emma Ray, Mary Sawyer, Margaret Taylor, Harriet Wright, Laura W. Wright, Edith Warrick and Ethel Warrick Squires (baby picture).
Many photographs identify R.L. Royce and show him fishing and hunting in Florida and various locations in Maine. Photographs depicting people on fishing trips also identify John R. Brodie, A. Bowler, William H. Murry, and Sam H. Pitcher. Fishing guides in these photographs are identified as Ben Chambers, Nick Mulligan, Tom Smart, and Arthur Wheaton.
Photographs of other homes in the album are identified as the "Maude Durkee Home" in Providence, Rhode Island; Ely Court [school] in Greenwich, Connecticut; "Judge Moores Estate" at Prides Crossing, Massachusetts; the "Norwood home" [and family] in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the home of Mr. and Mrs. O.B. Wood at 1011 Fourth Avenue in Los Angeles, California.
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
1 album, 115 pages: black-and-white photographic prints; 9.5 x 12 inches
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.318
Library & Archives Purchase
9 1/2 x 12 x 3 (HxWxD)(inches)
Purchase, 2024
Gloucester (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Lobster Lake (Piscataquis county, Maine) [lake]
Long Key (Florida Keys, Monroe county, Florida) [island]
West Branch Penobscot River (Maine) [river]
Main Duck Island (Ontario, Canada) [island]
Grand Lake Stream (Washington county, Maine)
Greenwich (Fairfield county, Connecticut)
Kitchen Cove Point (Washington county, Maine) [cape]
Brookline (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Prides Crossing (Beverly, Essex county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
Moosehead Lake (Piscataquis county, Maine) [lake]
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
Album containing approximately 410 black-and-white photographs of members of the Bowler, Royce, and Stace families (and other friends and family) between 1918 and 1920. Most photographs were taken around the homes then known as "High Cliffe Lodge" and "Twin Light Manor" in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Other photographs include locations of remote fishing camps in Canada, Maine, and Florida.
The front cover is missing. A number of pages in the album contain no photographs.
There are no restrictions on access.
Materials have been rehoused for long term preservation.
Front cover of album is missing, pages are fragile and some are torn. Some pages in the album contain no photographs. Care should be taken in handling.
Item
HAV-01-403-Z-L-404
Materials are in English
English immigrants John and Alexander Bowler opened their brewery in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1883. Bowler Bros. Ltd. Brewery became one of the largest brewing companies in New England, distributing 160,000 barrels of beer annually to locations all over New England. When the sale of alcoholic beverages was outlawed in 1919, the Bowler brothers were wealthy and ready to retire; they closed the business and moved on.
They retired to a pair of elegant summer homes they had built for their families on the ocean in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The homes were named High Cliffe Lodge (1908- ) and Twin Light Manor (1907-2020). [Note the extra "e" on the end of High Cliff is shown in pictures in the album]. The Bowler family sold High Cliff Lodge in 1932, and subsequent owners ran the property as a hotel, restaurant, and event space until it was sold in 2018. In 2019, High Cliff Lodge was restored, renovated, and renamed Oceana as a single-family home. Twin Light Manor was sold to a developer in 2018 who determined the structure was beyond restoration and the original home was demolished in 2020. A new home, named SeaView, was built on the site of Twin Light Manor.
Aquarius on the Back Shore Gloucester. Our Story / History, Retrieved August 20, 2025, from aquariusgloucester.com/history
Ciaramitaro, Joey. Twin Light Manor Coming Down, (2020, March 12). Goodmorning Gloucester. [a video of the demolition] Retrieved August 20, 2025 from goodmorninggloucester.com/2020/03/12/twin-light-manor-coming-down
Gale, Natalie. (2020, September 23). Historic Gloucester Property Transformed into Luxury Waterfront Homes. Northshore Magazine, Retrieved August 20, 2025 from nshoremag.com/faces-places/historic-gloucester-property-transformed-into-luxury-waterfront-homes
Jones, Edward A. (1920) Blue Book of Brookline: Containing lists of the leading residents, societies, churches, clubs, street directory. Edward A Jones Publisher. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Blue_book_of_Brookline_and_Longwood_%28IA_bluebookofbrookl1920unse%29.pdf
Museum of Worcester. (2020, August 1). The Bowlers, brothers John and Alexander, opened their brewery in 1883. [Facebook post]. retrieved August 20, 2025.
Old Breweries (2004-2013). Bowler Bros. Ltd. Brewery 1883-1918. Brewery ID MA 89a Retrieved August 20, 2025 from oldbreweries.com/breweries-by-state/massachusetts/worcester-ma-7-breweries/bowler-bros-ltd-brewery-ma-89a/
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