HINTON W.Va. (Hinton News) – I believe I have mentioned this chair in a previous tale of mine. But after uncovering it today while organizing some of my “treasures,” as I call them, or some of my “hoard,” as my family refers to it, I was finally able to get a photo of it.
The color photo you see is one of the original chairs that sat around the wood columns in the main lobby of the McCreery Hotel. I bought it from one of Ashby Berkeley’s auctions he had here in Pence Springs around 2005. It was advertised as a “Mission Oak Arts and Crafts chair from the lobby of The McCreery Hotel in Hinton, WV.”
After I won the bid on it, Ashby told me that he purchased it when the auction for the contents of The McCreery Hotel was conducted. He had it in storage ever since, much like I did ever since buying it that day, ha. In my defence, I am bringing it to what will be our short-term rental in Pence Springs, The Hines Boarding House 2.0.
There I will place it with other local historic furniture and place a frame near it with the old photo of it in the lobby, a tiny bit about it, and the history of the hotel. I remember at the auction that day, Ashby had the light fixtures off of the front of the building also. But someone else ended up with them.
This piece is relatively short, but after this chair being hidden away for years, I couldn’t resist telling about it after “rediscovering” it today. If this chair could talk, the stories it could tell from the people that sat in it. I love having an early photo of the chair in its original location during the “hay day” of its life.
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