Wednesday, May 1, 2019

1940 CAESAR RODNEY HOTEL SOLD


LEWES HISTORY
1940
CAESAR RODNEY HOTEL TO BE SOLD


Lewes, Delaware Friday, March 15, 1940:

The Caesar Rodney hotel at Lewes is to change ownership the first of April,
1940. The owners, The Lewes Hotel Company, have accepted the offer of John
E. C. Hill, of Berlin, Maryland to purchase the hostelry for an undisclosed price.

The hotel, built in 1927, by the Lewes Hotel Company, is a three story brick
structure serving commercial travelers and tourist trade. The last manager was Major
Harry M. Stanford who has moved to Middletown to manage the Old Witherspoon Inn.

John E. C. Hill had managed the Caesar Rodney Hotel prior to 1936, before he took over
The Brick Hotel in Georgetown and later the Atlantic Hotel in Berlin and at one time
was manager at Seaford's Hotel Sussex.

Officers of The Lewes Hotel Company are John Thompson,, William E. Walsh
Frank Carter and Cornelius Marshall.


ABSTRACT: Wilmington News Journal, Friday, March 15, 1940

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