QUILCENE — Although not all the damages have been assessed in Monday’s fire that destroyed the 89-year-old Quilcene Hotel, Fire Chief Bob Wilson on Wednesday estimated that the loss totals about $750,000.
The owners, Rick and Kathleen Emmerson, had spent the six years they owned the historic hotel by filling it with antique furniture and items, and renovating the interior.
Kathleen Emmerson said Tuesday that material or monetary losses do not compare to the sentimental losses such as a scrapbook of mementos of their daughter’s youth, and a lifetime of poetry Kathleen had written and was planning to try to get published.