A "Mrs. Fisher" (possibly Millennium Andrus), opened the hotel and accommodated visitors to the area. She was called to Idaho to help colonize and left the hotel to Robert Thomas and Julia Ann Wright Petty in about 1882.

The Utah Central Railway that ran from Preston, Idaho to Ogden, Utah was the sole proprietor in bringing in business for the hotel. The hotel had two stories; the ground floor had six rooms, and the upstairs with four bedrooms. A bathroom wasn't added to the hotel until around 1904. Each room had furniture, including a bed, a large dresser, a coal oil lamp, a washstand with a pitcher and towels, and a rocking chair. 

"The meals were served family style in the dining room and there was always a kettle of soup simmering in the back of the old wood burning stove in the kitchen and a pot of coffee and donuts or rolls could be served up at a moments notice.... Fuel for heating of the home and the cooking was brought out of the canyon--ice was obtained from the river and stored away for use during the warm season."

"[Robert] raised herbs in the family vegetables garden which provided seasonings for his wife's cooking as well as being used for medicinal purposes. He became quite adept at doctoring with herbs." 

After the passing of Robert Petty, Julia accompanied her youngest daughter to Logan and left the hotel to one of their sons and wife. One late summer, the wife of the Hotel was watching her children taking a bath and making food in the kitchen. She returned to the kitchen at one point to find it in flames. The home was lost to the fire.

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