Ashlanders and hotel guests invited to be a part of 100-year-long history

Ashland Springs Resort celebrates centennial with ribbon-cutting, wine tasting, and time capsule with public notes

By Sydney Seymour, Ashland.information

Just a few dozen Ashlanders and visitors of the Ashland Springs Resort turned part of historical past on Saturday, Sept. 20, during the hotel’s 100th anniversary ceremony, a collaboration between the lodge and Travel Ashland.

Resort house owners Doug and Becky Neuman began the ceremony by slicing a pink ribbon outdoors the lodge, wanting ahead to the subsequent 100 years. They welcomed attendees contained in the foyer for a champagne toast.

The centennial time capsule to be opened in 2050 will maintain lodge brochures and pictures courting again to 1925, materials from Neuman Reserve and Journey Ashland and notes from the general public. Ashland.information picture by Sydney Seymour

Anna Jo Gender, 69, thanks Becky Neuman, who owns the lodge along with her husband, for her ardour and contributions. Gender was a visitor within the lodge in 1969 when she was 13 and moved to Ashland due to how a lot she loved her time then. Ashland.information picture by Sydney Seymour

“This grande dame makes me cry,” Becky Neuman stated to the gang, elevating her champagne glass. “She had been ready for years to be introduced again to life — for folks to have the imaginative and prescient to resurrect her and provides her the grandness she all the time had.”

Carrying pearls in deference to the “grande dame,” Becky Neuman personified the 70-room lodge with a farm-to-table restaurant, English backyard and natural spa to Ashland.information as a “majestic, elegant and immortal gal who likes to rejoice.”

Contained in the Crystal Room — a room filled with tables draped in white fabric, partitions lined with mirrors, and a chandelier from the unique lodge — Katharine Cato of Journey Ashland and the Ashland Chamber of Commerce described the lodge to the gang as a “true gem” and “key landmark of our tourism, neighborhood and historical past.” She credited Doug and Becky Neuman for bringing it “again to life.”

Exterior the lodge entrance, lodge house owners Doug and Becky Neuman welcome the few dozen attendees who got here to rejoice 100 years of Ashland Springs Resort. The pair purchased the lodge in 1998 and reopened it in 2000. Photograph by Barbara Tricarico

Resort house owners Doug and Becky Neuman, who reopened Ashland Springs Resort 25 years in the past, reduce a pink ribbon to rejoice the previous 100 years and the long run. Barbara Tricarico picture

Native historian Peter Finkle invited listeners to “step right into a time machine for a couple of minutes” as he unfolded the lodge’s historical past.

On Sept. 28, 1925, the Lithia Springs Resort hosted its grand opening occasion, welcoming guests who have been “positive to return” for the therapeutic Lithia water and comes in Ashland.

5 hundred native residents invested within the lodge as a result of they believed lodge operator RW Value, who stated, in keeping with Finkle, “I’ve each motive to imagine that Southern Oregon is a while throughout the very close to future to be the playground of the Pacific coast.”

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