Mystery, or History?

CapetownHotel_1_Page_076_Image_0001Details a little blurry in this old photo of a building in Bear River.  Any idea what or where it was?

 

 

 

She is none other then the old Capetown Hotel which burned down. Charles Willis Ward mentions Capetown in his book Humboldt County, California: the Land of Unrivaled Undeveloped Natural Resources on the Western Rim of the American Continent   Published in 1915

Capetown Hotel photo from Ward's book published in 1915
Capetown Hotel photo from Ward’s book published in 1915

 

Excerpt from book
Excerpt from book

Ward’s book can be read in it entirety at books.Google.com

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