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May 14, 2026

Bend's historic post office becomes boutique hotel

  • The Westman offers 23 guest suites, an outdoor heated soaking pool and a lobby bar called Minnie's.
    • By NINA MILLIGAN
    Journal Staff Reporter

    Photos via The Westman hotel’s Instagram [enlarge]
    The Westman hotel in Bend benefits from traditional 1930s federal design: substantial and Art Deco.

    Minnie Westman was the first woman mail carrier west of the Mississippi, riding horseback in the 1880s to deliver the mail in Oregon. Her name lives on in a new boutique hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon.


     
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