Reward: Stolen Bathtub
Ghost Included

The original Room # 1 bathroom showing Mr.Addy's personal Copper victorian bathtub.

That about sums up the advertisement the owners of the Addy Sea Bed and Breakfast in Bethany Beach recently decided to run in the Coastal Point to try to retrieve some long-missing property.

The bathtub in question is a vintage Victorian clawfoot model, made entirely of solid copper. It was the personal bathtub of John Addy, the builder in 1902 of the Addy Sea and others of that era’s original Bethany Beach homes.

“John Addy was a plumbing supplier in Pittsburgh, Pa., and when he built the Addy Sea, he shipped many — if not all — of the building supplies by rail, barge and wagon to the building site at Ocean View Parkway and North Atlantic Avenue in Bethany Beach, including the Victorian copper clawfoot bathtub,” said Henry Hensel, who described the missing tub’s history.

The Addy Sea’s Web site describes the house in its early days as “a showplace — not only for its location and stateliness, but for the modem conveniences it offered the early guests, like bathrooms, indoor plumbing and carbide lamps, which were all shipped by railroad from Pittsburgh to Rehoboth Beach and then barged to Bethany Beach via the inland canal system.”

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