The sign greeting customers at the hotel's entrance

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This file appears in: Hotel Lincoln/Electric Hotel
The sign greeting customers at the hotel's entrance

This electric sign showed off the hotel's major amenity. Courtesy of Professor Larry Cebula.

This file appears in: Hotel Lincoln/Electric Hotel

By Tyler Robbins
Fifty miles west of Spokane sits the small town of Harrington, WA. A small hamlet of wheat farmers and railroad workers, the town boasted something a little unexpected: its very own luxury hotel. On January 11, 1902, the doors to the Hotel Lincoln…