"The lodge ... was built in 1926 as a hotel, restaurant and auto camp with cabins for travelers. It is now a Bed and Breakfast and has been maintained as it was during the popular early years of the highway."

Ken Manske. A Traveler's Guide to the Historic Columbia River Highway. Gresham, OR: M&A Tour Books. 2003. (Bridal Veil Falls 3)

"...built by Virgil and Lillie Amend. Amend, who worked at the Bridal Veil Mill, had purchased the land along Bridal Veil Creek from the lumber company. When the highway came through, he started an auto court. Later, he added a lodge ... which remains in the family and is now operated as a bed and breakfast by Amend's great-granddaughter [2006] ..."

"[The lodge was] completed by Cecil Pounder in 1926, continues as a 'bed and breakfast' establishment. It is now [2001] owned and operated by Laurel Slater, whose great-grandparents, Virgil and Lillie Amend, purchased part of the property in 1895, some earlier."

"Fifty cents would get a good hot meal of roast pork, mashed potatoes, and vegetables fresh out of the garden. For another buck-fifty, you could pull the Ford around back and pitch a tent, or tuck in your family in one of the snug cabins or rooms in the lodge."

Lyn Topinka, Columbia River Images: Roadhouses

The Lodge was built in 1926 from timber harvested from the Gorge and milled at the Bridal Veil Mill.

"... The lodge exterior is faced in horizontal rough-planed siding, stained dark brown. Multi-paned casement windows cover the front, and a porch stretches the full length of the building, then adorned with planter boxes filled with geraniums, sweet peas, and flowering beans climbing up the fir-pole supports. Inside, the large front room on the main floor (which was the restaurant) is constructed of rough-cut board-and-batten with hemlock floors, kept shining with periodic swathings of hot linseed oil. Small black painted tables with turned legs and simple chairs with rawhide bottoms were placed along the windows and throughout the room. A wraparound counter also seated customers ..." [Bridal Veil Lodge Bed & Breakfast website, 2006]

In 2014, the Lodge was put up for sale by Slater. I am not sure how all that played out, but the bed and breakfast is still operating.

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