Newport ยท Nye Beach
Hotel Sylvia
The New Cliff House above Nye Beach, the literary Sylvia Beach Hotel from 1987, reopened in 2025 as Hotel Sylvia with 22 author-themed rooms.
- Built
- 1909The hotel says W. D. Wheeler built the three-story New Cliff House in 1909, replacing a c.1905 boarding house; the state SHPO record gives 1911 and Wikipedia 1913.
- Style
- Craftsman
- Type
- Inn
- Rooms
- 22
- Area
- Nye Beach
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
W. D. Wheeler replaced the Wenger family’s Cliff House boarding house above Nye Beach with the 39-room New Cliff House, which operated as the Gilmore Hotel from 1920 to 1984. Friends Goody Cable and Sally Ford bought it in 1984, restored it and opened it as the literary-themed Sylvia Beach Hotel on March 14, 1987, the 100th birthday of the Paris bookseller. They sold it in 2024 to a Portland-based hospitality group, which reopened it as Hotel Sylvia in 2025 with 22 author-themed rooms.
Good to know
- Breakfast: available
- Pets welcome
- Address: 267 NW Cliff Street, Newport, OR 97365
Sources (3)
Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.