Glen Park Hotel register, 1878-1883

Contributor:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor); Kaplan, Deanne (donor)

Name:

Glen Park Hotel (Watkins Glen, N.Y.); Frost, Charles Sherwood, 1835-1906; Frost, George W., 1864-1902

Timespan:

19th century

Date:

1878

Description:

An oversize volume with pre-printed pages comprising the register for the Glen Park Hotel in Watkins Glen, New York. The register spans the years from 1878 to 1883. Guests staying at the hotel included many Jewish families. Each year a musical ensemble or band would stay at the hotel such as the Wellsville Cornet Band in 1878 and the Germania Band in 1881. The Foster School of Clifton Springs, N.Y. also stayed at the hotel a few summers. Guests arrived at Glen Park Hotel from across the United States including states surrounding New York, the Midwest, and from as far as California, Colorado, Louisiana, and Texas. Guests also traveled from Canada, Europe, and South America. Each page in the volume is pre-printed with the heading: Glen Park Hotel, Watkins, N.Y., C. S. Frost, prop'r. Columns with headings room, time, name, residence, and remarks were printed on each page. Some handwritten remarks appear in pencil throughout the register to indicate extra costs for boats, carriages, horses, telegrams, trunks, and wash. The signature of George W. Frost, son of Charles S. Frost, appears on the inside covers and in the volume. One guest's name has been excised from the volume on July 1, 1880. Several pages in the volume are detached and some are torn at the bottom edge.

Identifier:

2006.12.26.01112; (OCoLC)on1111528228; (OCoLC)1111528228

Language:

English

Provenance:

Presented to the Penn Libraries 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.01112).

Subject:

Hotels -- New York (State) -- Watkins Glen -- 19th century -- Registers; Jews -- Guest books -- New York (State) -- Watkins Glen -- 19th century; Health resorts -- New York (State) -- Watkins Glen -- 19th century; Health resorts; Hotels

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); Registers (Lists); Visitors' books; Notebooks; Blank forms; Forms (documents); Manuscripts, American -- 19th century

Physical Description:

1 volume

Geographic Subject:

New York (State) -- Watkins Glen

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

A hotel located in Watkins Glen, Schuyler County, New York. First opened in 1870 by Edwin C. Frost. In 1876 Charles Sherwood Frost, who was a marble dealer and manufacturer became proprietor of the Glen Park Hotel. The hotel was connected with the magnetic and sulfur spring house, located on Senaca Lake, and overlooking the Glen. The springs were advertised as medicinal having healing properties for skin conditions, rheumatism, and other ailments. The hotel was open from April to October each year. The Glen Park Hotel was also close to a train station and steamboat port. Approximately ten plus years after the death of Charles S. Frost in 1906 the hotel was closed. Three brick homes presently used as bed and breakfast inns were erected at the site circa 1920.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, MS 56, Codex 028.1

Collection:

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)