This section was separated by a narrow passage from the core of the hotel property, first started in the 1790s by owner Daniel Bedinger.

The Entlers managed the properties until 1873, when they moved to Piedmont, West Virginia, while retaining ownership of the hotel.

Daniel Entler's brother Joseph ran the Great Western Hotel, and both were the sons of a German immigrant butcher and innkeeper from York, Pennsylvania.

In 1912 a conflagration burned several buildings on the north side of German Street, including the original Entler property.

The hotel closed in 1917 and in 1921 it was sold to the State of West Virginia and became the first men's dormitory at Shepherd College, at which time its name was changed to Rumsey Hall.