“The Ohio House. Deluxe hotel on Main. \u00a0Three stories high with 72 bedrooms. \u00a0Built in 1892 and destroyed by fire in 1921. It resided at the corner of Sacramento & Main St. Mel’s Diner parking lot exists at this location now.” – Chris Shervey.<\/p>\n
NOTE:\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0following\u00a0comments refer to a different old picture from the prespective of Looking at the\u00a0Front\u00a0of the Hotel with trees on right of the building that photo. C.A.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cone of the finest hotels in the Mother Lode\u2014the Ohio House. It filled the entire block,\u201d claims George McKee, a member of the El Dorado County Historical Society, \u201cand had hot and cold running water in the rooms. After a fire in 1891, a power plant was installed to run electric lights. A three story annex was also added.\u201d<\/p>\n Details of the Ohio House are vivid for McKee, who was born in 1908. \u201cI remember my father telling the tale of how he took me into the hotel\u2019s bar as a baby, wrapped in swaddling clothes, He sat me on the bar and they gave me a hankie filled with sugar to keep me happy.\u201d<\/p>\n For almost ten years, the Ohio House was a part of the McKee family. McKee\u2019s grandfather, George W. McKee, owned and operated the hotel from 1889 to 1898. During the younger McKee\u2019s childhood, he recalls seeing the poplar trees shown in the worn postcard of the Ohio House.<\/p>\n \u201cThose trees ran right along Main Street. I also remember that on the west end of the building, there was a garden with cast iron furniture, manicured lawns and shrubs. The Ohio House had a beautiful, large ballroom and dining room, too,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n Placerville’s Ohio House was one of the finest hotels to grace the Mother Lode at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n The glory days of the Ohio House ended when fire struck for the third time in June 1921. \u201cNot only was the hotel lost, but the editor of the Georgetown Gazette, John C. Horn, died in the fire,\u201d says Shirley Pont.<\/p>\n Pont, a member of the Heritage Association of El Dorado County, pulls out a news clipping from 1921 to corroborate the facts. Horn\u2019s body was found on the third floor of the Ohio House. Apparently Horn was running from room, making sure that everyone escaped the fire, when he was overcome by smoke.<\/p>\n Although the corner of Sacramento and Main streets had \u201chosted first the Miner\u2019s Hotel and then the Ohio House, the hotel was not rebuilt,\u201d notes Marilyn Ferguson, another member of the Heritage Association. \u201cThe whole block is now a parking lot and a restaurant.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferguson and Pont both murmur approving comments as they pour over the last postcard. Placerville\u2019s Main Street, captured in a photograph taken between 1900 and 1910, has held up fairly well under the test of time. \u201cHere\u2019s Shafsky\u2019s Department Store. You can see the words engraved on the front of the building,\u201d Ferguson announces, pointing to a large building on the left. \u201cLater, it became the Santa Rita Hotel. Now it\u2019s an antique store.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “The Ohio House. Deluxe hotel on Main. \u00a0Three stories high with 72 bedrooms. \u00a0Built in 1892 and destroyed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10283,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions\/10283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}