Preston Springs Hotel

This place is over 100 years old. I have been in it about two years ago.

~ This location was once the place to go for the "healing" sulphur springs that ran under the once magnificent hotel. After that it became a nursing home. After the costs of reparations and upgrades bankrupted the owners they sold the building and it has remained empty since. It has switched hands plenty of times and progress is made little by little but it always ceases to a halt quickly.

Update - Dec. 2012: The building has been sold to a Toronto developer and is to be converted into a boutique hotel and spa.
ISHOOTTHINGS CONSTANT UPDATES AND FOLLOWING:
UPDATE JAN 2020- The City of Cambridge Building dept does a report of the structural strength of the hotel and it found many faults. City says "It must come down".
NOV 2020 - Paul de haas admits he wants to demolish the hotel and the council meeting to DE-DESIGNATE the hotel is TOMORROW (the 3rd). This could be it folks. THIS is how MASS DEVELOPERS deal with history and how designations protect(<-----ishootthings negatory opinion, not location creators LOL). We all watched it before our very eyes.
11/5/2020- The update from the meeting of the City of Cambridge Council, is that demolition is voted DOWN. So even though the developer, De Haas, pleaded (IMO a poor case of)...[paraphrasing]...A project that we knew was huge abut attempted anyways while in the meantime we have had a large string of success changing large spaces into..... to council for 7 minutes-ish. It hurt my ears to listen to him cover all the "speculation" for a lack of a better way to word it and try to prove its invalidity. ...constantly securing (more paraphrasing)... WELL THEN. hmm. Alright. This is the point when any feasable proposal prettywell has to be accepted. And its only recently Ive started taking an intrest in the other side (meetings, happenings of things with designations) and really in the local area. If a workable proposal IS accepted, and the developer wants it razed as he has stated, who will pay for it if it is to stay? The plot thickens day by day and month by month and this, being the first place I had ever truly explored, in 2010 with a Canon Powershot something or other that I lost a long time ago, has a lot of emotion in it for me. I would love NOTHING more than to be able to bug the hell out of just a FEW MOAR people to try to get a tour of Preston Springs (restored), and get nowhere, wondering what it turned into. It just got better so ahhhhh, prepare for the unexpected and maybe unprecedented. Those spring(s) of sulfur, are a RARE THING and need to be protected itself somehow.

Christmas Eve 2020: City of Cambridge issues the 2nd emergency demolition order. Place is doomed. Go if you havent.

Jan 2021 - Senselessly demolished. :'(

Took a week to demo. About a month to remove all the debris. “Injunction Night” was shot the LAST possible night it was explorable and it was a bit on tilt.