The historic Sylvia Beach Hotel, built in 1912 in Newport, Oregon. Many heavyweights of modern literature gathered there to find community and discuss ideas: Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein were but a handful of Beach’s regulars and contemporaries. The famed Left Bank bookshop and lending library became a second home to the Lost Generation of expat writers. As only the most devoted readers and Jeopardy contestants may know, Sylvia Beach isn’t a place at all, but a central figure of modern literature.īarely more than a century ago, a 32-year-old American calling herself Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Sylvia Beach Hotel does sit on the beach, that much is accurate: It looks out over four miles of windswept sands capped by an idyllic view of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. It was built in a simple, cross-gabled design to emulate the seaside cottage style common in northeast coastal communities such as the Hamptons and Nantucket. The three-story seaside hotel originally opened in 1912. Sylvia Beach Hotel sits atop the grassy seaside bluffs of Newport, a drizzly beach town of 10,000 people about 90 miles southwest of Portland. There’s a playful misdirection in the name of the oldest historic inn on the Oregon coast.
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