Hotel - In its heyday as a transportation hub, Newport boasted many hotels - the first hotel was a riverfront one, located near where the "subway" is now. It was built by Ephraim Bosserman in 1825. The second hotel was the Huggins House built on the site of PNC Bank. On the northeast corner of the square is the Newport Hotel and Tavern. The original brick building was  built in 1831 by a man named Collar, owned by Samuel Sipe. He operated it until1837, when John T. Robinson became the owner until 1850. The building was destroyed in a fire on March 6, 1856. Jesse L. Gantt replaced the hotel and it became known as The Gantt House, On June 25, 1874 the hotel and adjoining stores burned again; Mr. Gantt rebuilt it. The Gantt House became the Central Hotel on December 1, 1875, when Charles Horting and E. D. Thomas were managers. Mr. Gantt owned the building until March 3, 1880 when he died. In 1940 the Mingle sisters and their nephew, David Mingle Myers, bought the hotel from Mr. Thomas. The hotel was renamed the “Mingle House”. The Mingle sisters and David Mingle Myers remodeled the Mingle House in 1958-1959. [I stayed there in June 1958 and it was not remodeled then! My in-laws had a toilet sitting in the middle of their room!] In 1963, Kermit B. and Arlene Harry owned the hotel, which they again renamed the 'Newporter Hotel and Towpath Dining'. April 15, 1982, Jake Gochenaur became the owner of the building. In 1999 Jane and Jeff Scott became the new owners and are currently in the process of renovating the hotel. It's name today it is the 'Newport Hotel and Tavern'. Soon it will become a Senior Citizen Apartment Complex.