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For sixty years she stood as a sentinel over
downtown Nampa. From her spires you could have watched Nampa grow into a modern
city. She stood through the great fire of 1909 and the flood of 1910. She
survived two world wars and a depression. In her time she housed both the
famous and the infamous. In her rooms, business deals were sealed and card
decks were unsealed. Her bar sat idle during prohibition eras, both local and
national. Even when she was new, the Dewey Palace Hotel was the grand old lady
of Nampa’s skyline. By 1963, Nampa’s preeminence as a railroad crossroad was
eclipsed by freight haulers on rubber wheels and silver wings. Economics and
time did what the great events of history could not – they brought about the
death of the grand old lady. |
