An upscale residential hotel in the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. and Mrs. Cartmell (Tom’s parents) lived here in 1944.
![New Lawrence Hotel in 2017, from Google Street View.](https://brooksidepress.org/cartmell/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/New-Lawrence-Hotel-in-2017-300x196.jpg)
Built in 1929, it once counted Charlie Chaplin among its guests.
In the 1950s, its popularity waned and its clientele changed. It was ultimately purchased in a bank foreclosure sale and has recently (2013) been rehabilitated, restoring much of its former ambience.