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Looking at the wide-open expanse sur- town and built farmhouses and other
rounding the Inn complex, it’s hard to buildings. One was a two-story house
imagine that in 1865 this was the promis- that now houses the Inn at Newport
ing logging community of Newport. The Ranch.
Newport chute there - basically a slide It’s easy to understand how guests fall
down the cliffs - conveyed milled lumber in love with the Inn and return time and
onto ships for the journey to San Fran- again. Stunning artisan details abound.
cisco. But as Fort Bragg’s Noyo Harbor The inn’s designers re-purposed red-
developed, the lumber mill and most of wood logs from around the property to
Newport’s citizens moved there. Farmers build structures, walls tables, and even
soon took advantage of the abandoned beds. Forty doors in the inn were crafted
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