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Photographs 2005: Courtesy of Tim & Tom Bernert
 
 
 
The sprawling complex of guest room buildings remained unmutilated by stucco or painted brick. Moreover the Motor Lodge's grounds were clean and well manicured.
 
 
 
 
 
Photographs 2004: Courtesy of Bob Venditti
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Photographs 2005: Courtesy of Tim & Tom Bernert
 
 
 
The only blotch on Newport-Middletown's report card was the one it earned for its abandoned tennis courts. According to the Motor Lodge's desk clerk, when owners of the Lodge built their adjacent Hampton Inn, dirt and debris from construction damaged the courts and they were never repaired.
 
 
 
 
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