Tobias Lord Roberts (1835–1908) was an American businessman and hotelier. He is regarded as the pioneer of hotel-building in

Bar Harbor, Maine Bar Harbor is a resort town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine Maine () is a U.S. state, state in the New England and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the wes ...

. He opened Agamont House, the first hotel in the town, in 1855, converting a home built fifteen years earlier.

Agamont Park Agamont Park (originally Bar Harbor Park) is an urban park in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States. It is located at the northern end of the town's Main Street, at its intersection with West Street. The park, set upon a hill, affords 180-degree vie ...

, named for the hotel, now stands at the location. Another hotel, Deering House, followed in 1858. Ten years later, Alpheus Hardy became the first of Bar Harbor's summer residents to build a "cottage". Agamont_Park_3

To improve access for tourists to the town, he created a wharf in Bar Harbor in 1868. Agamont House burned down in 1888."The Agamont Burned" - ''Bar Harbor Record'', July 26, 1888

Death

Roberts died in 1908, aged 73 years. He is interred in Bar Harbor's Village Cemetery. Upon his death, Roberts' family sold several of his properties, including Rockaway House on Bar Harbor's West Street.

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