Last updated: January 25, 2018
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The National Park Inn
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![Longmire Springs Hotel in the 1910s. Black and white image of Longmire Springs Hotel built by the Longmire family in the 1890s.](/mora/images/Longmire-Springs-Hotel_late1910s_-adjusted-downsized.jpg?maxwidth=650&autorotate=false)
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![The first National Park Inn at Longmire opened in 1906. Black and white image of the north side of the first National Park Inn.](/mora/images/firstNationalParkInn.jpg?maxwidth=650&autorotate=false)
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After Elcaine Longmire’s death, the Longmire family leased their land and buildings to the Longmire Springs Hotel Company starting in 1916. This company constructed a number of new buildings, including the two-story Inn Annex in the meadow across the road from the National Park Inn. That same year in 1916, the Rainier National Park Company (RNPC) formed, began construction on the Paradise Inn, and started buying buildings in Longmire. The RNPC soon purchased the Longmire Springs Hotel, the Inn Annex and the National Park Inn. They moved the Inn Annex across the road so it sat east of the National Park Inn and clubhouse, and dismantled the old Longmire Springs Hotel.
![National Park Inn and Annex First National Park Inn built by Tacoma & Eastern Railroad Company.](/mora/images/is1749.jpg?maxwidth=650&autorotate=false)
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Resources:
Wonderland: An Administrative History of Mount Rainier National Park by Theodore Catton. May 1996.
Archaeology and History in the Nisqually River Corridor by Greg C. Burtchard Jacqueline Y. Cheung Eric B. Gleason. July 2008.