Casa Blanca Hotel

Doctor's Cave Hotel/Casa Blanca.

It was a private house for Dr. Culver, an American, and had been on the market for years after his death.
In 1923 Mrs. May Belle Ewen (Ma Ewen) bought the house and land (occupied in 1967 by the Casa Montego Hotel and the White Sands Inn). The house had 12 bedrooms. The hotel opened in 1924.
Originally the Doctor's Cave Hotel, but after a coat of white paint it became the Casa Blanca Beach Hotel, with a slight Spanish theme.
Every year Mrs. Ewen added more accommodation, also taking over two villas a few hundred yards down the road that had belonged to Dr. McCatty, and then the villa opposite the main entrance of the hotel, of an American, Mrs. Brookfield.
The New Year's dances were events of the Christmas season, and people came from all over the island.
The Hurricane of 1932 wrecked one of her buildings down to its foundations, and the baths and fixtures in others were washed through to the main road. A new building was built.
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In 1956 the hotel was sold to an American and Canadian combine for £500,000. It had 60 rooms and Mrs. Ewen's son, Jim, continued to manage it for several years afterwards.
In 1957, an addition with 100 beds was added.
In 1965 it was extensively redecorated.
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A description of the hotel at Jamaica Scene.
Closed around 2010. An old website. It became a property that houses mainly stores.
But we find it open in 2022. No website.