Globe Hotel

Globe Hotel


Text Source:  Memorial History of Syracuse, N.Y., Edited by Dwight H. Bruce, D. Mason & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, 1891, pg. 681

The Globe Hotel was erected in 1846 and 1847 by Henry Stevens, and immediately opened as a temperance house.  Two years later it was given up, and the next landlord was William Winton, who was followed by Winton & Butler.  This firm conducted the house till 1854, when they were succeeded by Ira Garrison, who ran it about ten years, and sold to Austin & Dickinson, under whose management the corner facing Washington and Salina streets was remodeled and the west portion of the hotel built.  Messrs. Austin & Dickinson were succeeded by E. D. Dickinson, and he by Dickinson & Austin, and later the firm of Dickinson, Austin & Bacon became proprietors.  A. R. Dickinson was their successor.  The firm of Dickinson, Bacon & Ellis was then formed and assumed control, and continued in that capacity till Mr. Dickinson withdrew, and the proprietorship passed into the hands of Bacon & Ellis, the present landlords.  The Globe is one of the best appointed hostelries in Central New York.  It is conveniently located, substantially built, and a general favorite with the traveling public.

Text Source:  Early History of Syracuse, Rose & Miller, Syracuse, 1869, pp. 32-33.

The Globe Hotel was built in 1846, and consequently its history is brief.  Ex-Mayor Wm. Winton was the first landlord, who was previously book-keeper for Philo Rust, at the Syracuse House.  Henry P. Stevens subsequently opened it as a Temperance House in 1847, when Ex-Mayor Winton bought him out, and took possession in 1848.  He sold to Ira Garrison, the 1st of December, 1854, and after keeping it several years, Austin O. Dickinson became its next popular, courteous and attentive landlord.  It is now being overhauled and remodeled, the lower part, where the office, bar and dining rooms were, being converted into elegant stores.  The Hotel will occupy the upper stories, and is being remodeled, refitted and re-furnished in the best, most substantial and elegant style.  Ed. Dickinson, one of the most genial and affable of landlords, will open it, with all its new furniture, in the course of a few weeks.


Text Source: Past and Present of Syracuse and Onondaga County New York, by The Rev. William M. Beauchamp, S.T.D., 1908, pg. 568.
The Globe Hotel changes were many and the venture gradually lost its historic prestige until, on August 1, 1906, it was closed by the receiver in bankruptcy for Alexander Briggs, its last proprietor, whose illness caused the failure.  Reopened for one week in September, during the State Fair, it was then closed forever and built over for a department store.  Henry Stevens, William Winton, Winton & Butler, Ira Garrison, Austin & Dickinson, E. D. Dickinson, Dickinson & Austin, Dickinson, Austin & Bacon, A. R. Dickinson, Dickinson, Bacon & Ellis, and Bacon & Ellis were the proprietors whose names are found in the records from 1847.  In 1893 James K. Spaulding and Henry S. Neally were in the business.  Theodore H. Coleman bought a half interest in the Globe on March 1, 1899, and on April 20, 1900, M. A. Roberts purchased Mr. Neally's interest.

Text Source:  The Red Book of Syracuse and Onondaga County, Ray B. Smith, Editor, The Syracuse Press, Inc., Syracuse, 1923, pp. 6-7.

In his little volume “From a Forest to a City” M. C. Hand says:

“The buildings that lined the streets were unattractive, no better than other country villages in those days, wooden buildings largely predominating.  The two side streets, Salina and Genesee, crossing each other where I stood, gave the little town an airy appearance.  On the west side of Salina street where the Globe Hotel (now the Edwards store) stands, were a few one-and-a-half and two-story wooden dwellings, nearly all painted white with green blinds, each lot surrounded with a picket fence, the green lawns and shrubbery in front of the houses giving them an air of cheerfulness and comfort.  What attracted my notice more than anything else was the activity of those I saw on the street.  Every man moved as though he had just heard that his house was on fire.”

Submitted 12 March 2006 by Pamela Priest
Updated 3 April 2006 by Pamela Priest