Josiah Dean likes to joke that he owns the best — and the worst — hotel in Dufur. That’s because the Balch Hotel is the only hotel in Dufur, population 600. The Balch Hotel is at 40 S.
Josiah Dean likes to joke that he owns the best — and the worst — hotel in Dufur. That’s because the Balch Hotel is the only hotel in Dufur, population 600. Found about 100 miles east of ...
The hotel was built by Charles P. Balch, a pharmacist and rancher who came to Oregon from Wisconsin in 1883 and settled in Dufur, where he married the daughter of the town’s founder.