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Nora Roberts Planned Literary Hotel Destroyed By Fire

We might have some weird type of ESP. In our story the other day about Starwood devaluing their points system, we mentioned the Sheraton Four Points in Hagerstown, Maryland which we picked to demonstrate how many SPG points you will need in a random city in a random state like Maryland.

Then a Hotel Maven mentioned Hagerstown was his hometown. Interesting.

And now, Hagerstown is in the news because novelist Nora Roberts (women's fiction best for airplane reading) was planning on turning an old hotel into a literary-themed, except the place caught fire!

[A fire marshal] said the fire started around 7:30 a.m. in the Boone Hotel, owned by Roberts and her husband, Bruce Wilder. It spread to the two other buildings caused an estimated $1.5 million in damage, Zurolo said.

[Roberts and Wilder] were renovating the hotel and planned to open it this summer as an inn with each room reflecting a different romantic literary theme. The 2 1/2-story hotel dates to the late 1700s.

That's an extremely sad ending for such a historic hotel. But we secretly hope Roberts will stil go forth with her romantic literary-themed hotel. We'll even locate Hagerstown on a map and go there.

[Photo: Steve Meyers/Hagerstown Herald Mail]

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