Ship Room - Hotel Vernon

HOTEL VERNON HISTORY
Hotel Vernon

built 1901 on Vernon Square, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Built by Michael McGady, owner / proprietor.
Hotel has 34 rooms, no plumbing, restaurant / bar on ground floor.
Quite fancy for the city's second downtown area.

1st Union built building in Worcester history.

1920's Hotel Vernon is run by Bossy McGady, and his brother Beaven.

Bossy is the first mounted State Trooper in Massachusetts State Police.
Somehow, during this era of prohibition, a speak easy operates in the basement of Trooper Bossy's hotel.

Captain Joe Miron, son of a famous opera singer from Webster, Massachusetts, marries a McGady girl, and becomes part of the Hotel Vernon family.

Mid 1930's, Joe Miron, who as a bar tender, spends his time drawing his patrons, attends the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts.
He shares a studio on Beacon Hill with Alfred Caplin and Walter Johnston.

Joe Miron, gettin his painting skills together, is inspired by New Deal WPA projects going on at the time... and brings Alfred Caplin and Walter Johnston to Worcester, to paint a gigantic maritime themed mural over the bar in the Hotel Vernon.

A french carpenter goes to work in the back room, sticking with the maritime theme, and builds a room which distinctly resembles the galley of a schooner.

Al Banx christens the bar and the adjacent ship room "Madame Rhubarb", the namesake being a polish chambermaid with an unpronouncable name.