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Historic hotel on Cedar River to come down next week
Eighteen flooded properties, including the historic Cedar Springs Hotel, will be demolished beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, the county reports.
Dave Rasdal wrote a story about the hotel in September that elicited some good reader response.
Here's some of what he wrote:
Built in 1884, the Cedar Springs Hotel was a hidden gem up the Cedar River from Palisades-Kepler State Park.
Flooded in 2008, the dilapidated, long-vacant resort will soon be demolished.
About 20 years ago, third-generation owner Pat Biderman sought help, to no avail, in preserving the 11-room hotel on 19 acres overlooking one of the more scenic areas of the river.
“I figured $50,000 then to seal up and save the hotel,” she says. “Now it would take several hundred thousand dollars.”
Third-generation owner Pat Biderman was about 4 when this picture was taken with her brother, Michael, nearly 60 years ago in front of the Cedar Springs Hotel. Note the veranda, which was later removed. (Biderman family photo)
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