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found itself without a suitable modern hotel for visiting guests. Several proposals were floated by community leaders for construction of a new "first class, modern, fireproof" hotel during the first half of the 1920s, without success. In the spring of 1924 the development of a modern downtown hotel
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by financiers there. Additional loan subscriptions made possible the total cost of construction, $ 250,000.
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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794:Hood River
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406:References
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