Eastland Park Hotel is a hotel in Portland

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

, Maine

Maine

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, United States. It was designed by architect Herbert Rhodes

Herbert Rhodes

Herbert Edward Rhodes was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played ten first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1878 to 1883, and twenty five matches overall for teams including the MCC , England XI , A.W. Ridley's XI , Gentlemen of England and Orleans Club...

. In 1927, the hotel gained fame when aviator Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh

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 stayed in it after returning from the solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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. In 1946, it gained notoriety again when it refused to allow former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...

to stay with her dog for the night.