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... history and antidotes from the resort era and the fifties and sixties. Many of their guests performed in the Catskill Hotels, including Mickey Barnett, The Allen Brothers, Larry Ravdin, and Freddie Jacobs. ...

... e boarding houses and small summer hotels built in the Town of Highland catered mostly to German and Irish guests. Today much of Highland is still undeveloped. The main industry in the town is touri ...

... many hotels had been built to accommodate the growing number of visitors each summer. The fastest growing type of lodging was the farm/boardinghouse. In the 1899 issue of the O&W publication, �Summer ...

... chwoods and vacationers from the New York metropolitan area to summer at local boarding houses and hotels. Although it too became a favorite spot for vacationers, Kenoza Lake (Pike Pond) had begun to ...

... to tourism (the third “T”) as its principal industry. Beginning in the 1840s, entrepreneurs were building summer hotels to accommodate visitors who, having learned of the great recreational opportunities ...

... Over the years, farming has been a major industry in Cochecton and during the insurgence of the resort industry. The farmhouse became a hotel. Cochecton had its share of hotels, particularly near Lake ...

... n drive around and you can see reminents of that,” Frishman said. “According to the New York Times, in 1953 we had 538 hotels and 1,000 rooming houses and 50,000 bungalows in Sullivan County,” Conway sai ...

... eat deal longer. Some pioneer hotels in the county were located in Monticello; the Mansion House and the Rockwell were important places during the Sullivan County resort era. There was a lot of summer acti ...

... During its heyday as a resort Hurleyville was home to many popular summer hotels, bungalow colonies and boarding houses, the biggest and best known was the rather grand Colombia Hotel located atop Colombia ...

... peak in the 1950's, there were nearly 1000 hotels operating in the region. In this video -- originally produced in 2007 on the 100th anniversary of the hotel -- Sullivan County Editor Barry Lewis intervie ...

Published on Aug 21, 2015 Narrated by Cy Plotkin whose parents bought the original Woodlawn Villa in 1920. A brief history of hotels around White Lake and Kauneonga Lake, Sullivan County, New York. ...

... and freight. The railroad brought growth and prosperity to Narrowsburg. Many new stores, shops and other businesses sprang up in the community. Hotels were opened in town and country boarding houses thrived ...

September 3, 1931; Livingston Manor Times "After visiting more than a dozen hotels in their search for slot machines without results, Constable Howard Denton and Deputy Sheriff Ben Gerow decided to retur ...

... way to the tanneries, milk on the way to the pasteurization plant and tourists on the way to the hotels have passed by in review. "It is hoped that the Sullivan County Historical Society will erect ...

... working on the pipeline itself, filled the local hotels, or for that matter any residence capable of providing room and board, with steady boarders. Joseph Page’s farmhouse, situated immediately next to ...

... recently observed his or her 100th birthday. However, such longevity is not common among the local hotels. In fact, when in 2007 the Kutsher’s Country Club celebrated its 100th birthday, it was the only ...

... Hotels. His most famous photograph, one which received worldwide distribution, was that of the wedding of the youthful Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher at nearby Grossinger’s Hotel. His aerial photographs ...

... In fact, special trout cars were built to make this distribution of young trout easier. Next the railroad increased its business by printing an annual book entitled Summer Homes which listed all the hotels ...

... a prized purebred Holstein herd, built a pasteurization plant and began selling milk directly to residents, stores, hotels and schools. He also kept expanding the farm, acquiring six additional farms in ...

... nway uses the phrase Silver Age to describe the hotels which existed before the First World War. Some of these buildings were physically impressive, but the activities available to the guests were limite ...

... the Victorian and Edwardian years. In an era when railroads initially opened up the county as a tourist destination the first generation of hotels provided a foundation for the great resort industry which ...

Lodging - Hotels - Resorts ...

... service resort in the world! The exhibit will explore the hotel's history from a modest 35 room building in the mid 1930s through its closing in 1998. Featured will be photos, memorabilia, lecture ...

Slideshow of Demolition work being done to the Concord Hotel. This media was produced by one of the contractors who got the contract.

Interview with Mark Kutsher

Sullivan County Historical Society History Maker Award 2002 Jennie Grossinger 1892-1972 Jennie Grossinger, like so many immigrants, had a great love of America and worked very hard to be worthy ...

September 15, 1911 Liberty Register "There is much discussion of a plan to rehabiliate the Old Mansion House at Monticello, and again make it the center of life in that village. "The upper floors ...

This Content is reposted from and is Property of Spectrum News During the 1940s and 1950s, the Catskills was one of the top tourist destinations in the world. In the summer months, it was home to more ...

... recently observed his or her 100th birthday. However, such longevity is not common among the local hotels. In fact, when in 2007 the Kutsher’s Country Club celebrated its 100th birthday, it was the only ...

... peak in the 1950's, there were nearly 1000 hotels operating in the region. In this video -- originally produced in 2007 on the 100th anniversary of the hotel -- Sullivan County Editor Barry Lewis intervie ...

Published on Aug 21, 2015 Narrated by Cy Plotkin whose parents bought the original Woodlawn Villa in 1920. A brief history of hotels around White Lake and Kauneonga Lake, Sullivan County, New York. ...

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