Onondaga County Hotels
ONONDAGA COUNTY HOTELS
American Hotel, James Street
American
House
Amos
Hotel, at Salina and Noxon
Balzhauser's
Hotel, West Street
Brintnall
Tavern a/k/a Talbot House, afterwards Candee
House, afterwards Hotel Manhattan, Warren and Fayette Streets
Center House, on the site of Turn Hall, was
burned December 26, 1867, and called Center because of its situation
between Salina and Syracuse
Congress Hall, afterwards The Howard
Charlie
Coppins' Hotel, East Water Street
Court
House Hotel
Drover's Home, a/k/a Eagle Tavern, East
Fayette Street
Empire
House, previously South Salina Hotel a/k/a Bogardus' Tavern, afterwards
Mansion House, afterwards, Voorhees House a/k/a Rusts' Hotel
Globe
Hotel
Exchange Hotel
Fayette House, was located on Hendricks
Block on East Fayette Street
Fifth Ward, Fayette and West Streets
Timothy Flood's Hotel, Wolf and Park Streets
Franklin Hotel
Philips Gehm's Hotel, North Salina and Wolf
Streets
Greyhound Hotel, at Warren and James Streets
Hotel
Burns, afterwards Hotel St. Cloud, on the site of the University Block
Hotel
Hilton
Hotel
Jefferson Clinton, built 1928
Hotel
Syracuse
Hotel
Truax
Hotel Warner
Hotel Wood
Westcott
House, afterwards Jefferson
Hotel, at Salina and Jefferson Streets
Jervis
House
Keeler's Tavern, on corner south of the Kirk
Kirk's Tavern
Lincoln & York's Hotel, East Water
Street
Lock Street House
James R. Loomis' Hotel, Wolf Street
The
Mizpah
Mansion House
Mayer's Hotel, East Washington Street
H. S. McVanner's Hotel, West Fayette Street
Hamilton
Morgan's Hotel, North Salina Street
Mowry
Hotel
Newall House, afterwards Kingsley House,
which stood where the Eckel Building was put up, afterwards Smith's
Hotel
Old
Line House, north of the junction of Salina and Onondaga Streets, on
the west side of Salina Street
Onondaga Hotel
Onondaga House, at North Salina and Willow
Streets
Imperial,
afterwards Premier Hotel
Railroad House
California
House, afterwards St. Charles Hotel, afterwards Remington House
Francis Schoen's Hotel, West Fayette Street
Martin
Sherman's Hotel, Salina and State Streets
Martin Sheuemann's Hotel, North Salina
Street
Syracuse
House
Thurwachter's Hotel, North Salina Street
Travelers'
Home
Tremont, afterwards Sherman House, stood
where Larned Block is located
Union House
Vanderbilt
House, built on the location of Cook's Coffee House, previously Welch's
Coffee House
Winchester
Hotel, Allen's Inn stodd where the Winchester was located on the
northwest corners of Washington and Clinton streets
"The Cottage" afterwards Windsor Hotel,
southeast corner of East Water and Market streets
Woerner Hotel
Yates
Hotel
General
Information
Text Source: Syracuse and
Its
Environs, by
Franklin H. Chase, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., Chicago, IL, 1924, pp.
320-322
First
the tavern, then the inn and finally the hotel. There seems to be
no
limit to the hotels of all kinds found in the Syracuse records.
The
first thing the trustees of the village of Syracuse did, after the
incorporation April 13, 1825, was to elect the village officers, and
the next was to issue licenses to tavern keepers. That was on May
4,
and the four to whom they were issued were: Othniel H. Williston, Hiram
C. Woodworth, George W. Tanner and James Mann. At the next
meeting the
licenses to sell groceries were looked after. They cost $25 each,
while there seems to have been no charge to keep a tavern.
By 1838 a Board of Excise had arrived. That Board recommended
that
there were eleven proper persons to have licenses as tavern
keepers.
They were: Philo N. Rust, Syracuse House: Daniel Comstock,
Mansion
House; William B. Kirk, Kirk's Tavern; Thomas J. Keeler, Keeler's
Tavern, which was on the corner south of the Kirk; William Downs, Old
Line House, which was just north of the junction of Salina and Onondaga
streets, on the west side of Salina Street; Nicholas Cook, Center
House, which was on the site of Turn Hall, was burned December 26,
1867, and was called Center because of its situation between Salina and
Syracuse; John Smith, Onondaga House; William A. Robinson, Eagle
Tavern; George Bramsby, Lock Street House; Benoni F. Partridge, Union
House, and John Teckney, Railroad House. It will be noticed that
the
word hotel does not appear in the village records.
pg. 321
In the 'sixties Allen's Inn stood where the Winchester is located on
the northwest corners of Washington and Clinton streets. "The
Cottage" was the name of the place which gave way to the Windsor Hotel
on the southeast corner of East Water and Market streets. John
Smith ran it, and here was a small theater which had one of the city's
first vaudeville shows, but it was called "variety." There were
Mayer's Hotel in East Washington Street, Balzhauser's Hotel in West
Street, and John Thurwachter's Hotel in North Salina Street. Some
of these hotels were headquarters for German immigrants coming to
Syracuse. Jay Eastman had a hotel in an old wooden building upon
the site of the present St. Cloud.
Reminding
of Old Hotels.
There were no less then twenty-seven hotels in Syracuse in 1867.
To-day, with nearly five times the population, there are but
fifty-three. Besides the Globe, there was the Vanderbilt in
course of erection in '67, the Syracuse House run by Allen, and the
Empire by William C. Gage. Many of the old hotels only survive in
names upon other hotels. J. C. Everts had the American Hotel in
James Street, and there was L. F. Joerissen running the Amos Hotel at
Salina and Noxon. Opposite what was the practically new court
house at West Genesee and Clinton, was the Court House Hotel run by J.
Butterworth. Where the Hendricks Block stands in East Fayette was
the Fayette House, with Morris & Vroman as proprietors. What
afterwards became the Kingsley House, which stood where the Eckel
Building was put up, was the Newell House, run by Ephraim J.
Webster. Three years later D. Lewis Smith had it and it was
called Smith's Hotel, but he was the "Lew" Smith of his time. The
old Onondaga House at North Salina and Willow had E. T. Talbot for
proprietor. The Sherman House which stood where the Larned Block
is located, was run by Burdick & Moore. J. W. Clarke
had the St. Charles, on the site of the University Block. Charles
Henson ran The Greyhound at Warren and James. David L. Sternberg
was mine host at the Westcott House, now the Jefferson at Salina and
Jefferson. Other hotels were Charlie Coppins' in East Water;
Orson P. Ward's the Fifth Ward, at Fayette and West; Lincoln &
York's in East Water; H. S. McVanner's in West Fayette; Hamilton
Morgan's in North Salina; Martin Sheuemann's in North Salina, Francis
Schoen's in West Fayette; Martin Sherman's at Salina and State, and
Henry B. Williams' Eagle Hotel in East Fayette Streets. In the
old Salina section were Timothy Flood's at Wolf and Park; Philip Gehm's
at North Salina and Wolf, and James R. Loomis' in Wolf Street.
Text Source: Syracuse
Convention City,
Printed by Hyde-Baumler, Inc., Syracuse, NY
The hotels of Syracuse are
particularly well equipped and qualified to handle conventions.
They have been hosts to conventions for many years and experience has
shown them the way to care properly for any type of convention meeting.
There are two modern, first-class hotels. The Onondaga and the
Hotel Syracuse, which have every appurtenance for the successful
handling of conventions. In addition to these two, there are four
others, which have excellent convention facilities. There is,
also, under construction a new hotel which will soon be ready for
occupancy. One exceptional feature of Syracuse's convention
hotels is the fact that they are all located within a radius of four
blocks in the center of the downtown business area.
Submitted 12 March
2006 by Pamela
Priest
Updated 4 April 2006 by Pamela Priest