After a Lifetime at the Inn, Anna Quick Hands Over the Keys
A Spokane hotel man leases the Newport Hotel for a year as its founder — who opened a house in Old Town before the Great Northern ever arrived — retires for a well-earned rest.
N. R. Baldwin, of Spokane, has leased the Newport Hotel in Old Town for the term of one year from Sept. 1. Mr. Baldwin will remove his family to Newport and conduct the hotel in the future. He is an old hotel man and will endeavor to keep the house up to the present standard. Mrs. Anna Quick, who is the owner of the property and who has managed the hotel since its construction, will retire and take a well earned rest. Mrs. Quick is the pioneer hotel keeper in this district. She opened a hotel in Old Town previous to the building of the Great Northern. The present building is the result of her labor. It is one of the best in Northern Idaho and has enjoyed a deserved patronage ever since it was opened to the public.
“Mrs. Quick is the pioneer hotel keeper in this district. She opened a hotel in Old Town previous to the building of the Great Northern.”
Old Town was Newport's original settlement, and its hotels and boarding houses anchored the town before the Great Northern reshaped the waterfront and drew business to the newer blocks. Mrs. Quick's retirement marks the passing of that first generation of proprietors, the kind of small-business continuity local papers once tracked in fine detail. The hotel itself has not survived into the present, making this paragraph one of the few surviving records of where it stood and who kept it.
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