July
8
2011
BEVERLY, July 8, 2011 --- For many years, if you came into downtown Beverly from the north, one of the buildings that would catch your eye was the Mayflower Motel. A long, single-story, brick building on the left, it had become rundown and tired-looking. In its final years, its small rooms had become permanent homes for some of the community's lower-income residents.