Heppner Hotel

Heppner, United States

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Completed in 1919 and opened the following year in Heppner, Oregon, this Mediterranean Revival hotel was designed by architect John Virginius Bennes to replace two lost predecessors—one destroyed by a devastating 1903 flash flood and another consumed by fire in 1918. Originally christened the Hotel St. Patrick before being renamed the Heppner Hotel, the three-story structure became the city's sole hostelry upon opening, offering forty-eight rooms. Measuring sixty-two by one hundred twenty-six feet, it dominates its downtown lot and stood as the largest and tallest commercial building in Heppner as of 1982. Constructed of hollow clay tile and concrete with stucco facades and frameless windows, the building's austere exterior belies its practical sophistication: spacious second- and third-floor rooms, three-fourths equipped with private baths, and a ground floor distinguished by a narrow central entrance bay flanked by structural and bay windows serving interior commercial space. The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.