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The Cinneys began operating a bed and breakfast at 702 and 704 North Main St. in Coupeville with high hopes, just about
the time of the very extreme Arctic Cold Snap of 1990. They even moved the Coupe-Gillespie House to its present location
at 704 N. Main, from a nearby spot at 4th and Kinney. Their work got the operation off to a good start, but the next year
came Desert Storm, and the Bush I Recession, and they had some problems maintaining momentum. In 1992, they sought to sell
the Inn, and eventually did sell the business, at the end of 1992, to Gladys and Mitchell Howard, who moved all the way from
Providence, Rhode Island, with their five-year-old son Theodore, to take over the property and try to grow the bed and breakfast
from the original base the Cinneys had established.
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Mitchell and Gladys were the live-in working innkeepers resident at 702 North Main (the Kineth House, on the National
Register) for fourteen full and lively years. During this period, Gladys and Mitchell also volunteered in the Coupeville
schools. Mitchell was twice elected to the Coupeville School Board (in 1997 and 2001), and served almost ten years on the
Chamber board. They retired from active innkeeping at the end of 2006, one year after their son Ted had graduated from Coupeville
High School, and moved on to attend college at the University of California's Santa Barbara campus. During the course of
2007, they sold the buildings that had been the home of the Inn at Penn Cove. In 2007, the Howard Partnership also bought
the Jacob Jenne House at 602 N. Main St., which became the new home of the Inn at Penn Cove.
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