310 West Seventh Street
Established in the late 1980s by Robert and Deb Logan (hence the name), this local bed and breakfast has welcomed vacationers, wedding parties, parents bringing their children to college or returning four years later for graduation as well as a few very well-known visitors. In fact, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in Fulton to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Churchill’s Sinews of Peace speech, was one of the first guests greeted by Cathy and Carl McGeorge, innkeepers for over two decades beginning in 1996.
The house itself has a much longer history. There was already a residence on the property when Dr. Edgar Marquess and his wife Mary purchased it in 1885. They had the house rebuilt in 1889, but rumor has it that the kitchen of the original structure remained. Dr. Marquess, for whom Marquess Hall is named, arrived on the Westminster campus in 1882 and taught Latin there for 35 years. In 1917, Marquess wrote a letter of resignation “pleading weariness and advancing age”. ( He was 75.) The Board of Trustees persuaded him to take a year away from teaching instead. He agreed to do so, but never returned to the classroom and died in Chicago in 1924..
In 1961, Harvey and Martha Clapp and their young family moved into the house. Neighbors still remember fondly the many social occasions they enjoyed there, especially the Clapps’ annual Christmas party and Harvey’s celebrated eggnog! Most evenings, weather permitting, Harvey and Martha could be found sitting on a bench in their front yard, chatting with passersby and neighbors who came over to visit. (After Harvey’s passing, the bench on the corner of 7th Street and Westminster Avenue was donated by the neighborhood in his memory.) When Harvey and Martha downsized to a house on Nichols, led by “drum major” and William Woods English professor, Dr. Florence Krause, neighbors paraded from 7th Street up Nichols to present them a housewarming gift: a flagpole so they might continue their tradition of flying the flag every day.