It started as a stable and blacksmith shop and was converted into a hotel in 1915.
 

Originally built in 1905, The Inn at Soap Lake is one Grant County's oldest buildings. Roxie Thorson and her husband, were the new owners.


Mr. Thorson had a dream to make bath salts from the Soap Lake mineral water, but a short time after they became established, he became ill with pneumonia and passed away.

Roxie carried on with his dream to become queen of the salt mine until 1986, when at 96 years of age she passed away.
 

Two people who discovered Soap Lake as children, with their families were Cory and Nancy Wold.

In 1963, shortly after they were married, they came to the Inn at Soap Lake, then called Thorsons, for a family get together.

 

They continued to visit Soap Lake every year because of the relaxation of a small town that offers the only mineral lake of it's kind, with all the sunshine you could want. Little did they know they would be the owners of the hotel years later.
 

In 1990, while visiting Soap Lake, they noticed a "For Sale" sign on the hotel. They were in the right position to make a change from Edmonds, Washington after semi-retirement from selling their Auto Salvage business.

Within a month, they rented their home and moved into the hotel as new owners. They did not realize how much work was going to be restore the Inn to its early day glory.

Their hard work and persistence paid off and the Wold's were able to restore the Inn and bring back all of it's charm.

They re-opened the Inn in May, 1993 and were successful in their venture.

Finally, in the spring of 2001 they sold the Inn to the Garnett family, opening a new chapter in its long life.


 

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