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History:
The Jarrettown Hotel was built by Henry Houpt in 1847 on three acres of land purchased in 1759 by Samuel Houpt, Henry’s grandfather. The property had passed out the hands of the Houpt family five years before the hotel was built. Henry Houpt owned the business for 22 years and then sold the tavern in 1865 to Nathan Marple. When Marple died, his widow, Sarah, hired Charles Palmer as landlord, and it became known as Palmer’s Hotel. It is presumed because of the name change that Palmer leased the premises rather than served as an employee.

On May 28, 1896, a cyclone swept across Upper Dublin aimed directly at Jarrettown. Ironically, the hotel sustained only slight damage, but the stonewalled stable of the hotel collapsed killing two men, some horses and injuring many others. A group of 21 men came from Ambler to assist in caring for the injured and to seek the bodies from the rubble. The men who died were Albert Moffit, a hostler employed at the hotel, and Winfield Ensley a horseman from Germantown who had along with the others, taken shelter in the stable because of its thick stone walls. Thirty-five houses and other buildings, including the Jarrettown Methodist Church and the schoolhouse, which lost its roof, were damaged. The Otto Kaiser property, just southwest of the hotel, was according to a newspaper account, “swept from the earth”.

In 1898 Sarah Marple’s daughter Mary Lower inherited the hotel and William C. Lower sold it to Irvin R Rotzell in 1902 for $12,000, the same year telephones were installed.

In 1939, Rotzell sold the hotel to John and Clara Schmitt, in whose family it remained until 1997.

In 2007 the Jarrettown Village Associates, purchased the Jarrettown Hotel and its surrounding property. Under the ownership of Giovanni Agresti, the Jarrettown Hotel has undergone extensive restoration, keeping the beauty of the original building, while creating a beautiful atmosphere for it’s guests.

Reopening in September of 2008, the Jarrettown Hotel, once again, has become a meeting place for friends and family, where they can enjoy delicious food in the warmth of an historic building.