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Article: Landmark hotel in Seal Beach will be torn down to make way for new homes.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2005
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Byline: Eleeza V. Agopian
Oct. 27--SEAL BEACH -- A landmark bed and breakfast in this small beachside city may be torn down to make way for new single-family homes.
Marjorie Bettenhausen Schmaehl, owner of the 24-room Seal Beach Inn and Gardens in downtown, said Wednesday she felt forced to sell because the inn was no longer profitable.
"Of course I wish it didn't have to go," said Schmaehl, of the English-style inn she fashioned from a rundown apartment building she bought in 1976. "But it has to go. There is no return sufficient for me to continue killing myself." A Huntington Beach developer, who's started processing permits to build the ...