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GEORGE BARDIN, proprietor of the Hotel St. George, Nyack -N. Y., was born in Belgium in 1844, and cane to America in 1868. He started in the hotel business in 1972, as a caterer for the Erie railroad offices, in Twenty-third street, New York city, and also kept a small house for the convenience of the Erie railroad officials at 262 West Twenty-fourth street, and catered for a large boarding house at 91 Fifth avenue. He opened the Sherwood House, Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth street, in the same capacity, and in the summer of 1874-75 conducted the Tappan Zee House at Nyack, known at that time as the. Rev. D. L. Mansfield's Female Seminary. He afterwards became the proprietor of that house, remaining as such for several years, when he opened the Hotel St. George, October, 1886, which he has made a very popular hotel by reason of his excellent management. The St. George is one of the best known hostelries in the country, patronized by tourists enroute from New York to Tuxedo and other coaching parties, also the headquarters of bicyclists. The cuisine, unexcelled, has given it a wide reputation. He is an active member of the New York Hotel Association, and has a large acquaintance among the hotel fraternity generally. He is a member of Rockland Lodge, No. 723, F. and A. M., the Nyack Rowing Association, Cercle de l'Harmonie and other organizations, and he is one of the best known and most successful hotel men of the time.
Source : Historical record to the close of the nineteenth century of Rockland County, New York; Nyack, N.Y.: Van Deusen & Joyce, 1902, 821 pgs.