The Old Newberry Hotel

04/16/2026

12/03/2024

Getting ready for the holiday season! We have weddings and parties coming up and will be part of the Tour of Homes on the 14th.

10/16/2023

The Old Hotel is hosting the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Newberry County Literacy Council, an adult education program. We will celebrate the success of the Council in promoting literacy in Newberry County and thank all those - tutors, board members, directors, and volunteers - who have given their time and effort to this cause. We will also celebrate the many people who have participated in the programs run by the Council to improve their lives.

Please join us!!

Thursday, October 19, at 6:00. Dinner will be served! No cost.

09/11/2023

Join us Sunday, September 17 at 3:00 at the Old Hotel
Joe McDonald will talk about his new book, "With All Deliberate Speed", about school desegregation in Newberry and the student boycott at Gallman High in 1969.

05/17/2023

I want to share some information not relating to the Old Hotel. The Building Thriving Communities Foundation, of which I am a part, is holding a shop sale at the old Gallman High building this Friday and Saturday. The school district left a lot of items in the basement shop area when they moved out and deeded the building to us. We need to clean this area out to begin renovation. All proceeds go to our project which is to transform the old school into a community center. Come see the interesting array of building materials and shop items and help us as we move forward. Feel free to share the post and flier.

02/20/2023

The Old Hotel was honored to host the celebration for Walt McLeod Sunday. Walt was our District 40 Representative in the State House from 1996 to 2016. He has embodied the essence of public service and citizenship, acting for the public good. Walt got things done for Newberry that advanced our community and fought for better opportunities for all across our state. Over 250 people attended and speakers praised his life's commitment to others. Thanks, Walt.

09/17/2022

The South Carolina Clay Conference, organized by the Newberry Arts Center, is happening now. The Pottery Market, featuring work by local, national, and international artists, is open today at the Old Hotel. Come by and see the creative work on display.

06/07/2022

Below is an article I wrote about the closing of Quality Shoe Repair on McKibbon St., just a block away from the Old Hotel. This area adjacent to the Hotel was known as the Back Streets from the 1920s to the 1970s. At any one time, it was an area of over twenty black-owned and black-run businesses. Quality Shoe Repair is the last remaining business from that time. Thanks to David Abrams for running the business these last ten years after his uncle, Cato Coleman, founder of the shop in the 1950s died in 2012.

NEWBERRY — With little fanfare, a community institution has ended a 70-year run. Quality Shoe Repair, also known as Cato’s, closed on Saturday, May 21.