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Texas couple takes on Inn at Arch Cape
New owners
seek a Northwest
feel for the
historic inn
By Brenna Visser
Cannon Beach Gazette
Before buying the Inn at
Arch Cape, Heather Newman
and Chris Anderson knew the
Oregon Coast just as another
faraway place on a map.
A year ago, the couple
were living in Dallas, Texas,
both working in highly in-
tense marketing jobs.
“We were working 60-
hour work weeks. We would
come home from work and
sit on our laptops,” Newman
said. “We needed a change.”
That’s when Anderson and
Newman decided to take a
chance and pursue a dream
venture: owning and operat-
ing an inn.
They didn’t know much,
other than they wanted a place
near water. When the two saw
the former owners, Tracy and
Henry Hooper of Gearhart,
selling the Inn at Arch Cape
earlier this year, they imme-
diately booked a flight.
They toured the five-bed-
room hotel on a typical rainy
day in May, and were mysti-
fied by the area’s beauty.
“Once we saw this prop-
BRENNA VISSER/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
Heather Newman and Chris Anderson became the new
owners of the Inn at Arch Cape in May.
erty, we immediately put our
house on the market,” New-
man said. “This place is spe-
cial.”
Newman and Anderson
have been working to revamp
and modernize the space
since May. The original struc-
ture was built in 1939 by Er-
nest White, and the building
has since acted as a post of-
fice, general store and hotel.
Until this year, Newman
and Anderson had no experi-
ence running an inn. But what
they do know is marketing,
and Newman said she was ex-
cited to help solidify the inn’s
identity.
“There was already so
much working for us when
we took it over, so we are
just trying to create more of a
Pacific Northwest feel to it,”
Newman said. “We want to
keep it woodsy but modern.”
To do so, Newman and
Anderson are slowly chang-
ing out older furniture with
antiques from local stores.
Every room now has flowers
and candy from local ven-
dors, and they intend to make
more partnerships in the fu-
ture.
So far, the two love the
fact they get to meet so many
new people. Taking on the
challenge to make such an
established inn their own has
been rewarding.
But much of this experi-
ence has been learning on the
fly. Because the Inn at Arch
Cape is run by just the owners
and one housekeeper, Ander-
son said they have to be ready
to learn and do anything.
“One of the hardest things
is getting help to fix things
(on the North Coast),” Ander-
son said. “When the shower’s
running hot, or the TV’s not
working, you have to figure
out how to fix a lot of stuff
yourself.”
There are few new chal-
lenges they have learned to
overcome that weren’t issues
in Dallas. Since moving here,
Anderson learned how to chop
wood for fireplaces — a skill
not sought after in a place
where the temperature trends
closer to 100 degrees most
days.
Not having as many re-
sources closely accessible has
also been a change for the cou-
ple.
“In Dallas, we had a Home
Depot 10 minutes away. Now
we have to plan our trips into
town so we don’t drive to War-
renton all the time,” Anderson
said.
But when they look back at
those 60-hour work weeks in
Dallas and compare it with the
remote serenity of ocean liv-
ing, Newman said it is worth
the sacrifice.
“It’s strange to live in a
place where people vacation,”
Newman said. “But this is par-
adise. Every day we are proud
of ourselves for taking the risk,
and feel so lucky to live here.”
Tribal legacies survive in local place names
Tribes from Page 1A
Celebrated for their skill
in making canoes, the local
tribes would travel up the
Neawanna River, down the
Neacoxie, to Sunset, Long
and Smith lakes in Warrenton,
portage to the Skipanon River
and on to the Columbia River
and would “go pretty much
with ease several days up to
The Dalles and Celilo Falls,”
Moberg said.
“Considering the clumsy
tools they had to construct
the canoes, they were marvel-
ous,” he added.
Lewis and Clark wrote that
they were “amazed at the ease
with which they navigated the
stormy waters.”
When the local Indians
died, they weren’t buried, but
placed on scaffolding with
all of the deceased’s posses-
sions to take with them to the
hereafter. “In 1852, there was
a report that there were bod-
ies in scaffolding from (what
is now) Avenue A to Avenue
U in Seaside” because of a
smallpox epidemic,” Moberg
said.
Cecust “Elizabeth” Lattie
and her son were the only two
Native Americans in the coun-
try to claim and receive prop-
erty under the Land Donation
Act of 1850, according to
Moberg. In 1852, Elizabeth,
a Clatsop, claimed the land
between the current Avenues
A and U, and her son, Wil-
liam Lattie, claimed property
from Avenue U to the Cove. A
portion of William’s property
became the site for Benjamin
Holladay’s Seaside Hotel,
which signaled the beginning
of Seaside as a resort commu-
nity.
The federal government
doesn’t recognize the Chi-
nooks and Clatsops as tribes
because there were not enough
members to constitute a tribe,
Moberg said.
“Why? Because white
men’s diseases had wiped out
90 to 95 percent of the peo-
ple,” he said. “They were dis-
persed and not recognized as
a tribe. We’re not here to lay
blame but to remember the
first citizens of Cannon Beach
who all but perished under the
civilization and way of life of
the white man.
“These were people who
welcomed the stranger, mi-
grants and should be remem-
bered with the words Ecola,
Neacoxie, Necanicum, Ski-
panon … and Clatsop. These
names are indelibly stamped
on Cannon Beach and all of
Clatsop County so that we
will not forget those first citi-
zens of Cannon Beach.”
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