The Hotel Ostendorf in Covington is shown in this 1904 photograph. It was located on the site of the current football field behind William Pitcher school and owned by the parents of Joe Ostendorf. A cypress fence ran along the front.
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M.W. Quave lived next door to the hotel, and he recalled a number of things about it, including "Henry's goat." There was a "horse powered" pump, which neighborhood kids enjoyed leading the horse in a circle around it.
A bankruptcy sale in 1904
