The original Beanery (what railroaders called a café) was built in the 1900s and is located at the corner of Routt Street and Highway 131. It was originally constructed out of wood, it burnt down and a new building was constructed out of brick and cement. It was built in 1962, right over the original location. The Beanery was a two story building, the top half of the building contained the hotel rooms and the bottom half was the café. The hotel rooms were usually fairly cold. So, when it caught on fire and people were being evacuated, a man was heard to say "that he didn’t want to leave because it was the first time the rooms were ever warm."

The Railroad Beanery was a two-story building with a flat roof. The original Beanery was built out of wood, but when it burnt down they rebuilt it in the same place out of brick and cement. It has two types of windows, sliders that are located on the top level and on most of the bottom level, and some single hung windows, which were on the bottom level. The door is a glass commercial door; it is constructed of wood and has a window in the middle of it. This building was located on Highway 131 across the street from the current Post Office.

This information was gathered with the help of The Historical Society of Oak Creek and Phippsburg (HSOCP). Dutch and Neva Ebaugh, Lila Rider, Markie Williams and Mike Yurich were invaluable resources for this project. This description was written by Kindra and Darcy from Soroco High School in May of 2006.