It was a historic day, and sort of a sad one, too, on Tuesday, November 9, when owner Sarah Brewster and her fiancé and partner Tom Smith had the old Windsor Hotel in the west central Iowa town of Yale moved from its 120-year location in the business district to their farm about a mile north and just east of the community. Brewster, with help from her parents and others, has the old hotel about halfway renovated and had planned to operate it as a small inn in Yale, catering especially to users of the Raccoon River Valley Trail coming through town, as well as other visitors. However, that location is right across Main Street from Smith’s large tire dealership, and the couple decided they didn’t want to live that close to the shop. So Smith had an old house moved off his farm north of town, and the hotel will now become their own home out there as well as operating as a bed & breakfast for the trail users and other guests. They haven’t set an opening date yet, but it will be a while. The pictures here show the hotel being moved through the property of the Farmers Cooperative grain elevator and complex on the northeast corner of Yale. To read more about the hotel’s move, click here. (Photos courtesy of Luann Waldo, Bagley News Gazette)