{{Short description|American businessman}} {{Infobox person | name = Henry P. Rines | image = | alt = | caption = | other_names = | birth_name = | birth_date = April 30, 1885 | birth_place = Lincoln, Maine, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1939|3|2|1885|4|30}} | death_place = Cape Elizabeth, Maine, U.S. | resting_place = Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine, U.S. | occupation = Hotelier | known_for = | spouse = Adeline N. Bond (married 1915–1939; his death) }}
'''Henry Pritchard Rines''' (April 30, 1885 – March 2, 1939) was an American hotelier, active in New England, United States, during the first half of the 20th century. He owned interests in several hotels and was also a pioneer of commercial radio broadcasting.
== Early life == Rines was born in 1885 in Lincoln, Maine, to Joseph Henry Rines and Anna Isabel Pritchard. His father established Rines Brothers, one of the largest department stores in Portland, Maine.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1939-03-03 |title=Obituary for HENRY P RINES |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bangor-daily-news-obituary-for-henry/119825064/ |access-date=2025-05-19 |work=The Bangor Daily News |pages=12}}</ref> The family lived at 767–797 Congress Street, a building dating to 1887, designed for his parents by Francis H. Fassett. Now known as the Rines Mansion,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rines Bros. department store, Portland, ca. 1905 |url=https://www.mainememory.net/record/12524 |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Maine Memory Network |language=en}}</ref> it has been the home of the Roma Cafe since 1935.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Home of Adeline Bond Rines, Mary Rines Thompson |url=https://pmwht.org/places/west-end/w10-home-of-adeline-bond-rines-mary-rines-thompson.html |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=pmwht.org}}</ref>
== Career == In 1896, Rines was the developer involved in the construction of the Congress Square Hotel in Portland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Portland's Congress Square Hotel Postcard |url=https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/spec_photos/827 |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=DigitalCommons@UMaine |language=en}}</ref> It was located at the southern corner of Congress Street and Forest Avenue, a location previously occupied by the City Hotel. He also pioneered the commercial broadcasting of the WCSH, Portland's first radio station, from the hotel in 1925. It remained there for around fifty years. The Congress Square Hotel was adjoined by another of Rines's ventures, the Eastland Hotel, in 1927.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bregman |first=Susan Mara |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Along_Route_1/tHi6EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=henry+p.+rines+developer&pg=PA64&printsec=frontcover |title=Along Route 1 |date=2023 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-4671-0995-6 |pages=64 |language=en}}</ref> The Rines family sold both hotels in 1964.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Portland Hotels |url=https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/2589/slideshow/1591/display?use_mmn=1&format=list&prev_object_id=4192&prev_object=page |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Maine Memory Network |language=en}}</ref>
Rines was also involved in the Hotel Carpenter in Manchester, New Hampshire.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_York_Hotel_Review/2JDe1IolVNUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=henry+p.+rines+developer&pg=RA8-PA66&printsec=frontcover |title=New York Hotel Review: A Magazine for Hotels, Clubs, Caterers, Etc |date=1924 |pages=66 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1929, Rines, in partnership with Boston architect Peter Holdensen, built Danish Village in Scarborough, Maine.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-08-19 |title=Saving a piece of Scarborough's past |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2015/08/19/saving-a-piece-of-scarboroughs-past/ |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Press Herald}}</ref> It was demolished in 1976.<ref>[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/555c99afe4b027a64d6975df/t/57bb13612994ca79ff680f6a/1471877989916/AwardsOnePage+rev.pdf Danish Village Arch] – Greater Portland Landmarks</ref>
== Personal life == Rines married Adeline N. Bond in 1915. They had a son, William, and a daughter, Mary.<ref name=":0" />
== Death == Rines died in 1939, aged 53.<ref name=":0" /> He was interred in Portland's Evergreen Cemetery. His widow, who continued the family enterprises,<ref name=":1" /> survived him by 37 years. She was buried beside him in 1976.
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