was purchased for $25,000, and departure points in Beverly and Marblehead Harbors were added. The hotel was popular and well-visited, but according to Alfred Gilman, "the house did not pay the running expenses. What was gained by the house was swallowed up by the expense of running the steamboat", and the corporation eventually voted to sell the property. The property was subsequently mortgaged and transferred between members of the company, until finally in July, 1857, "the establishment, including steamboat, was sold to Gorham L. Pollard," who immediately sold the steamboat. Pollard operated the Island House until August, 1869, when "Cat Island, recently called Lowell Island and sometimes called Pollard's Island, with all boats, their tackle and furniture, all fishing lines and materials, bathing suits and other articles of personal property including a piano", were sold to Andrew L. Johnson for $10,000. A Lowell newspaper from the fall of 1869 reads: Property transfers Johnson ran the hotel for three years but was not successful. In 1871, he sold the property, and over the next six years the property was bought and sold several times before finally being purchased by Samuel B. Rindge for $4500 in January, 1878. Apparently, the Island House remained a resort under Rindge, as an advertisement for "Island House, Lowell Island, Salem Harbor. Open June 10, 1880", with departure and arrival times of the boat, appeared in an 1880 magazine Eventually Samuel's son, Frederick H. Rindge of California, donated the property to St. Margaret's Home of Boston for use as Children's Island Sanitarium. References Buildings and structures in Salem, Massachusetts Seaside resorts in Massachusetts