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A
Self-Guided Walking Tour of Main Street in the
Historic Village of Catskill, NY
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Main Street — These buildings were built for R.C. Lacy Auto Sales
and Service in 1920 following a fire that destroyed Horton Bros. Livery
Stable, the last livery in town. |
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Main
St. & Union St. — The beautiful Smith House Hotel, known for the
elm tree growing through the floor of the dining room, stood here.
The Smith House once hosted the rich and famous John Jacob Astor in
1905, who arrived in his touring car, enroute to his country home
in Rhinebeck. |
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– 473 Main Street – BRIK Gallery — Built around 1805 this building
was designed to fit the curve. In the mid 1900s this building housed
Conine’s Grocery and Meat Market. Earlier references show that for
most of it’s existence it housed butchers, bakers and grocers. |
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Brick
Making. The Riverfront Condominiums now occupy the land on which
one of Catskill’s three large brick plants existed in the 1890s. Next
to the Hop-o-nose Marina a chimney belonging to one of these plants
still remains. The industry declined following the stock market crash
in 1929. Ice Catskill had eight ice houses in 1847. In 1918 laborers
were paid $4.50 per day (double time for Sunday) for loading barges
from the local ice warehouses insulated with straw for sale in New
York City during the summer. Catskill’s Trolley In 1900 the Catskill
Electric Railway Company constructed a trolley line with cars that
ran from the tip of Main Street at the Catskill Point to Leeds. Five
cents would take you anywhere in the Village and 10 cents to Leeds.
At times the cars were so heavily laden with passengers, that when
a car came to a steep hill, especially Jefferson Hill, the people
would pile out and walk up the hill while the car struggled to ascend
the slope. The trolley ceased operations in 1918. |
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