The Thorwald Condominium was developed in 1973 on the site of the Thorwald Hotel overlooking Good Harbor Beach.
The development comprised 42 two-bedroom units in five buildings. Fourteen of the units are of a single-level layout on the ground floor. The other 28 are two-story units with the living room, dining and kitchen and a half-bath on the first floor, and two bedrooms and full bath upstairs. All units have 996 sqft of living space.
The site plan and floor plan layout of each of the five buildings is available HERE
Condo Documents
Official Thorwald Condominium Documents
The green buttons below are links to the official condominium documents as recorded in the Essex County property records. Only one amendment has been adopted and the orange button provides a summary of the changes effected.
A Blanket Right of First Refusal (ROFR) Waiver was adopted by the Trustees on October 15th, 2025. This was done in conjunction with the sale of Unit 38T, when the title search could not locate the Waiver for the purchase of the owners in 2018. The Trustees acted to waive ROFR for all prior sales of Thorwald Condominium sales as of that date.
The red button links to the Rules & Regulations last approved by the Trustees and currently in effect.
The Thorwald Hotel was built in 1899 joining the other grand hotels of the Gloucester shoreline, like the Moorland. In business for more than half a century, the hotel burned in 1965, was removed and ultimately replaced by the Thorwald Condominium.
Thorwald has a total of 59 designated parking spaces contained in its three parking lots. Forty-two of these are assigned to specific units, and seventeen are numbered spaces for use by authorized guests, as evidenced by the displayed GUEST placard on the dashboard.
Thanks to Climate Change, property insurance has become increasingly difficult to obtain and more expensive for properties assumed to be in a Coastal Hazard Zone. This typically is taken to mean anywhere near the water, which of course we are. This page contains images of Thorwald in relation to FEMA Flood Zones as of 2024.
Thorwald Boundary with Bass Rocks Country Club
The 19 Atlantic Road portion of the condominium is bounded on the west and south by land belonging to the Bass Rocks Country Club. The exact boundaries are difficult to visualize and there appear to be no boundary markers visible at this point. The images below give an idea of the boundaries at a large scale.
The color images on this page were captured from the Massachusetts GIS system, which can be seen on the Internet HERE.
The Plat Map is the Thorwald Condominium Site Plan as filed with the City of Gloucester
As you can see, the boundary is very close to the buildings; but exactly how close can only be determined by an actual survey.
