One hundred and thirty years ago next month June 17, 1891 the newest of York’s numerous elegant resort hotels opened for business. The Hotel Albracca, located on York Street adjacent to Woodbridge Road, boasted 60 rooms and was large enough to accommodate 150 guests in grand style.
The hotel stayed in business until 1924 when, like so many of York’s old resort hotels, it was destroyed by fire. Nothing of the hotel survived but the chimneys.
According to Peter Moore, writing in 1993 in The York Weekly, the property remained unoccupied until 1929, when it was sold to Alfred Ells, who had previously purchased the historic Gilbert Moulton house (built as early as 1715) at the corner of York Street and Radon Road (the Scituate Men’s Row area). Ells hired a team of oxen to move the house to the former site of the Albracca. He called his new home “Four Acres,” in recognition of the land area he now owned there.