Western Hotel with residents

Title

Western Hotel with residents

Description

A photograph of the Western Hotel in Forest Grove, probably dating from the 1880s or early 1890s. The building is a two-story, cross-gabled hotel with a large covered porch supporting a balcony. Four men stand on a wooden step that was likely used for getting on and off stages or wagons that stopped at the hotel. More men line the boardwalk in front of the building, while women and children gather on the balcony above them. A sign above a door on the image right of the building reads "hotel." A note on the back of the photograph identified this as the Western Hotel, which according to the 1892 Sanborn Map of Forest Grove, was next door to Johnson Brothers' Livery Stable. The brick livery stable still stands on the southeast corner of Main St. and Pacific Ave. in Forest Grove, but the Western Hotel is no longer there.

[back] [pen] Old picture in Forest Grove. Sloan Hotel? Lawrence E. Bamford identified it as the Sloan Hotel. He was born in 1892 - he had eaten there as a child. [Note: this is incorrect; it is not the Sloan Hotel, although the form of the building is similar.] [pencil] 1987 Western Hotel -- earlier than 1895. (Near 'Livery stable' on Pacific Avenue. Identified by workers at Washington County Hist Society by comparing with other pictures. [green pen] Eric Stewart with Washington County Museum.

Identifier

WCMpic_013459

Subject

Historic buildings

Communities

Hotels

Economic History

Spatial Coverage

Forest Grove, Oregon

Language

English

Date Created

circa 1880s

Date

1880/1889

Medium

photographic prints

Rights

Online access to this image is for research and educational purposes only. To inquire about permissions, order a reproduction, or for more information, please contact the Five Oaks Museum at Research@FiveOaksMuseum.org.

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Type

Still Image

Source

Washington County Museum