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Historic Hotels & Inns in Oregon

From Portland’s Broadway hotels and Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood to a lighthouse keepers’ house on the coast, the rim of Crater Lake and the gold towns of Jacksonville and Baker City: every historic hotel and inn in the state we could verify.

35 historic places to stay in 17 towns · verified October 2026 · by Historic Inns editors

The short answer

Portland has the most, with 15 historic hotels and inns, among them The Benson and the Heathman on SW Broadway, the Embassy Suites in the 700-room Multnomah Hotel and McMenamins Kennedy School in a 1915 schoolhouse. On Mount Hood, stay at Timberline Lodge, built by the WPA from 1936 to 1938; in Southern Oregon, at Crater Lake Lodge, opened in 1915 on the caldera rim, or in gold-rush Jacksonville. In the Columbia Gorge, the Columbia Gorge Hotel stands above Wah Gwin Gwin Falls and McMenamins Edgefield fills the old county poor farm in Troutdale. On the coast, book the Heceta Lighthouse Bed & Breakfast or Hotel Sylvia in Newport’s Nye Beach, and in the east, Baker City’s Geiser Grand, opened in 1889.

Our top picks

Best overall

Timberline Lodge

Built 1936–38 · Government Camp

Built by the WPA at 6,000 feet on Mount Hood and dedicated by FDR in 1937; its exterior played the Overlook Hotel…

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Most haunted

The Heathman Hotel

Built 1927 · Portland

George Heathman's ten-story 1927 hotel, then Portland's largest construction project; radio station KOIN broadcast from its mezzanine.

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Best lodge

Crater Lake Lodge

Built 1915 · Crater Lake National Park

Opened in 1915 on the caldera's southwest rim, about 1,000 feet above the lake; 71 rooms, and a Historic Hotels of America…

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Grand hotel

Geiser Grand Hotel

Built 1889 · Baker City

Baker City's 1889 Hotel Warshauer, the gold-boom 'Queen of the Mines,' closed in 1968 and reopened in 1993 after a restoration.

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Where they are

Where to go

Portland15 historic places to stay · founded 1851Oldest: The Society Hotel (1881)See the guide →

Every historic inn in Oregon

InnTownBuiltRoomsTypePriceHaunted
McCully House InnJacksonville18609Inn–Rates
Jacksonville InnJacksonville18618Inn–Rates
The Society HotelPortland1881–Boutique hotel–Rates
Wolf Creek InnWolf Creek1883–Inn–YesRates
The Winchester InnAshland1886–Inn–Rates
Geiser Grand HotelBaker City1889–Grand hotel–YesRates
Kimpton Hotel VintagePortland1894–Boutique hotel–Rates
Heceta Lighthouse Bed & BreakfastYachats18946B&B–YesRates
The Peerless HotelAshland1900–Boutique hotel–Rates
McMenamins Hotel OregonMcMinnville190536Inn–Rates
Balch HotelDufur1907–Inn–Rates
Woodlark HotelPortland1908–12–Boutique hotel–Rates
SentinelPortland1909–23–Boutique hotel–Rates
Hotel LuciaPortland1909–Boutique hotel–Rates
The NinesPortland1909–32–Grand hotel–Rates
Hotel SylviaNewport190922Inn–Rates
Embassy Suites Portland DowntownPortland1911–Grand hotel–Rates
McMenamins Crystal HotelPortland191151Boutique hotel–Rates
Portland’s White HousePortland19118B&B–Rates
McMenamins EdgefieldTroutdale1911–Resort–YesRates
Hotel deLuxePortland1912–Boutique hotel–Rates
The Clyde HotelPortland1912–Boutique hotel–Rates
The Royal Sonesta Portland DowntownPortland1912–Grand hotel–Rates
Hood River HotelHood River1912–Boutique hotel–Rates
The BensonPortland1913–Grand hotel–Rates
McMenamins Kennedy SchoolPortland191557Inn–YesRates
Crater Lake LodgeCrater Lake National Park191571Lodge–Rates
Hotel CondonCondon1920–Inn–Rates
Columbia Gorge HotelHood River1921–Resort–YesRates
Hotel ElliottAstoria192432Boutique hotel–Rates
Frenchglen HotelFrenchglen19248Inn–Rates
Ashland Springs HotelAshland192570Grand hotel–Rates
The Heathman HotelPortland1927–Grand hotel–YesRates
SCP Redmond HotelRedmond192848Boutique hotel–Rates
Timberline LodgeGovernment Camp1936–38–Lodge–Rates

Price is a typical nightly rate: $ under $200, $$ $200–349, $$$ $350–549, $$$$ $550+. Rates vary by season; check the inn for exact prices.

Elsewhere in Oregon

1860McCully House Inn

Built 1860 · Classical Revival · Jacksonville · Inn

McCully House Inn

Why stay Dr. John and Jane McCully's Classical Revival house in gold-rush Jacksonville, with five rooms, four suites, a bakery and a pub.

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Wolf Creek InnRick Obst / CC BY 2.0

Built 1883 · Classical Revival · Wolf Creek · Inn

Wolf Creek Inn

Why stay Henry Smith's 1883 stagecoach stop on the Applegate Trail, where Jack London finished Valley of the Moon; a state heritage site since 1975.

The ghost story Ghost stories at the inn include a female stagecoach driver said to have died on the property, and the inn has been featured as a haunted location on Ghost Adventures and Hotel Secrets & Legends.

Good to know Breakfast: available

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Geiser Grand HotelJoe Mabel / CC BY-SA 4.0

Built 1889 · Italianate · Baker City · Grand hotel

Geiser Grand Hotel

Why stay Baker City's 1889 Hotel Warshauer, the gold-boom 'Queen of the Mines,' closed in 1968 and reopened in 1993 after a restoration.

The ghost story The hotel is reported to have not just one ghost but a whole crew of fun-loving spirits.

Good to know Breakfast: available · Pets welcome

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Hotel CondonMattsjc / CC BY 4.0

Built 1920 · Italianate · Condon · Inn

Hotel Condon

Why stay A 1920 Italianate hotel on Main Street in the Condon Commercial Historic District, with continental breakfast, free parking and dogs welcome.

Good to know Breakfast: included · Parking: on-site free · Pets welcome

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Columbia Gorge HotelIan Poellet / CC BY-SA 3.0

Built 1921 · Mission Revival · Hood River · Resort

Columbia Gorge Hotel

Why stay Simon Benson's Mission Revival hotel at the end of the Columbia River Highway, above Wah Gwin Gwin Falls, later a retirement home; reopened in 1979.

The ghost story A woman in white, said by some to have fallen from a hotel balcony, is reported to haunt the hotel.

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Ways in

Themes in Oregon

Portland’s Broadway and West End hotels

Most of the Portland stays we list went up between 1908 and 1927. On SW Broadway, the 1894 Imperial Hotel is now Kimpton Hotel Vintage, its 1909 extension is Hotel Lucia, The Benson opened as the New Oregon Hotel to coincide with Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, and George Heathman’s hotel followed in 1927. The West End holds the Sentinel (the 1909 Seward Hotel), the Woodlark (the 1908 Cornelius Hotel), the McMenamins Crystal Hotel (the 1911 Hotel Alma) and The Clyde Hotel (1912), and two department stores became The Nines and The Royal Sonesta.

Mount Hood and the Columbia Gorge

The Works Progress Administration built Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood’s south slope from 1936 to 1938, with furnishings made by hand by local artisans, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated it in 1937; it is a National Historic Landmark. At the Gorge’s west end, McMenamins Edgefield fills the 1911 Multnomah County Poor Farm in Troutdale. In Hood River, Simon Benson built the Columbia Gorge Hotel at the end of the Columbia River Highway, above Wah Gwin Gwin Falls, and the Hood River Hotel is the brick annex of the original Mt. Hood Hotel by the railroad depot.

Crater Lake and Southern Oregon

Crater Lake Lodge opened in 1915 on the caldera’s southwest rim, about 1,000 feet above the lake, and is a Historic Hotels of America member. Gold-rush Jacksonville, a National Historic Landmark district since 1966, has the Jacksonville Inn in an 1861 brick storehouse and the McCully House Inn, and Ashland has the nine-story Ashland Springs Hotel, The Peerless Hotel, a 1900 brick building, and The Winchester Inn, an 1886 house. On the old Applegate Trail, the Wolf Creek Inn was built in 1883 for Henry Smith as a stagecoach stop.

Baker City and the high desert

Baker City’s Geiser Grand opened in 1889 as the Hotel Warshauer during the gold-mining boom and was known as the ‘Queen of the Mines.’ Near Steens Mountain and the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the 1924 Frenchglen Hotel was enlarged with Civilian Conservation Corps labor in 1937–38; its 2026 season ran from March 15 to October 31. Small-town hotels also survive in Condon (Hotel Condon, 1920), Dufur (the Balch Hotel, 1907) and Redmond, where Soul Community Planet reopened the 1928 New Redmond Hotel in 2019.

Road trip

Portland to Heceta Head, inn to inn

Portland

Start with two nights in Portland. Pick a hotel on SW Broadway, in the West End or in Northeast from our Portland guide.

Astoria

Stay at Hotel Elliott, a 1924 hotel in the Astoria Downtown Historic District with 32 rooms and suites, some with fireplaces and spa tubs.

Newport

Book Hotel Sylvia above Nye Beach, the former Sylvia Beach Hotel, reopened in 2025 with 22 author-themed rooms and breakfast at Cafe Sylvia.

Heceta Head

End at the Heceta Lighthouse Bed & Breakfast between Yachats and Florence, six rooms in the assistant keepers’ house with a multi-course breakfast and an afternoon wine and cheese social, for guests 10 and older.

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Context

History and architecture

Oregon’s oldest stays grew out of the gold rush and the stage roads: Jacksonville’s brick storehouse, now the Jacksonville Inn, went up in 1861, and the Wolf Creek Inn was built in 1883 for Henry Smith as a stagecoach stop on the Applegate Trail. Baker City’s gold-mining boom brought the Hotel Warshauer, now the Geiser Grand, in 1889. In Portland, the 1894 Imperial Hotel was followed by the Cornelius, Seward, Alma, Mallory and Clyde hotels between 1908 and 1912 and the Heathman in 1927, while smaller towns built their own, from the Hotel Oregon in McMinnville (1905) and the Balch Hotel in Dufur (1907) to the Hotel Condon (1920) and the New Redmond Hotel (1928). Crater Lake Lodge opened on the caldera rim in 1915 to give national park visitors a place to stay, and Simon Benson, a backer of the Columbia River Highway, built the Columbia Gorge Hotel at its end. In the Depression, the WPA built Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood from 1936 to 1938, and Civilian Conservation Corps labor enlarged the Frenchglen Hotel in 1937–38.

Questions travelers ask

What is the oldest hotel in Oregon?

Of the stays we list, the oldest buildings are in gold-rush Jacksonville: the McCully House Inn, which Dr. John and Jane McCully built in 1860–61, and the Jacksonville Inn, an 1861 brick storehouse. Portland’s Society Hotel began, the hotel says, in 1881 as a refuge for sailors, and the Wolf Creek Inn, built in 1883 as a stagecoach stop on the Applegate Trail, is now a state heritage site.

What is the most haunted hotel in Oregon?

There’s no official ranking. 1859 Oregon Magazine’s roundup of haunted places includes the Heathman in Portland, where a 1999 KOIN-TV report carried by CBS News told of glasses and a chair moving on their own in Room 703, plus the Geiser Grand in Baker City, McMenamins Edgefield, the Columbia Gorge Hotel and the Wolf Creek Inn. The Heceta Lighthouse Bed & Breakfast tells guests about its own ‘fabled ghost,’ Rue, and a Kennedy School bartender told National Geographic of a girl said to haunt the old schoolhouse. These are stories, not documented fact.

Can you stay overnight at Timberline Lodge and Crater Lake Lodge?

Yes. Timberline Lodge, a National Historic Landmark built by the WPA from 1936 to 1938, takes overnight guests year-round on Mount Hood’s south slope at 6,000 feet. Crater Lake Lodge, with 71 rooms on the caldera rim and a Historic Hotels of America member since 2012, is seasonal: its 2026 season ended on October 13, and the 2027 season was bookable when we checked.

What are the historic hotels in the Columbia River Gorge?

Three we list: McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, the 1911 Multnomah County Poor Farm, run by McMenamins since 1990 with over 100 rooms; the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, which Simon Benson built at the end of the Columbia River Highway; and the Hood River Hotel, the brick annex of the old Mt. Hood Hotel in downtown Hood River. South of The Dalles, the Balch Hotel in Dufur opened in 1908.

Where are the historic bed and breakfasts in Oregon?

Two of the stays we list are B&Bs: the Heceta Lighthouse Bed & Breakfast, six rooms in the assistant keepers’ house at the Heceta Head light station, for guests 10 and older, and Portland’s White House, a 1911 Greek Revival mansion in Irvington with eight rooms, five of them in the main house. For an inn with breakfast included, try The Winchester Inn in Ashland or Hotel Condon.

How we chose these inns

Every place on this page is at least 50 years old, holds a credential we can check (National Register listing, a listed historic district, landmark status, or Historic Hotels of America membership), and takes bookings today. We verify each one against primary sources before it goes on the list, and last checked this list in October 2026. Read our criteria.

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