Welcome to The Warwick Hotel, its excellent food and historic setting. The Warwick has been welcoming hungry diners and tired travelers since at least 1800 when it was known as the Cross Keys Hotel and was a regular carriage stop on the turnpike running between Philadelphia and Harrisburg.
From those early times, when Daniel Baum was the proprietor, the hotel and restaurant has carried many names, including “The Mansion House,” “U.S. Hotel,” or simply “Baum’s Hotel.”
From those early days, it has had several well-known owners who were pillars of the community in their day and time. Included are names such as the Baums (father Daniel and son Davis), Joseph S. Early (the town’s last surviving Civil War veteran), A.L. Taylor, Aaron Porter, A.K. Eischied, A.M. Brandt, Charles Frederick, Charles Scandalis, J. Emmett Page (who owned it at the time of Prohibition), Samuel Wolf and Warwick M. Siler, who felt strongly enough about his business to give it his name, “The New Warwick”. No evidence could be found to determine if this referred to Philadelphia’s and New York’s famous Warwick Hotel as being the “Old Warwick,” but it is an interesting possibility.
The repeal of the 18th Amendment in 1933 made the “Warwick Hotel” a licensed establishment once again, a status it has enjoyed to this day. |
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