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Paul Smith's Hotel

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For years the hotel was kept intentionally primitive, offering neither bellboys nor indoor bathrooms. It started as a seventeen-room inn, though by the start of the 20th century it would grow to 255 rooms with a boathouse with quarters for sixty guides, stables, casino, bowling alley, and a wire to
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In 1860, an article titled "Shooting in the Adirondack" was published in the periodical "All the Year Round." The article, the author of which remains unknown, describes a hunting trip the writer took at the Paul Smith's Hotel in 1859 led by Apollos Smith "and one Warren for the woods". This was
171:. It also had woodworking, blacksmith, and electrical shops, a sawmill and a store. Stagecoaches delivered guests to the hotel until 1906, when a short electric railroad connected it to the nearest main line. 308:, August 30, 1903, "Season in the Adirondacks Shows No Signs of Waning; Outdoor Sports of All Kinds Followed by Fancy Dress Balls and Bowling and Pool Tournaments -- Fair at Paul Smith's Hotel a Big Success." 359: 54: 315: 369: 374: 364: 160: 113: 234: 76: 379: 299: 294: 37: 47: 41: 33: 127:, it was, in its day, the most fashionable of the many great Adirondack hotels, patronized by American presidents 263: 58: 156: 198: 168: 304: 117: 354: 183: 159:
recorded in the 1860 US Census as an employee of the Paul Smith's Hotel and who later served in the
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Smith died in 1912, but the hotel continued under his son, Phelps, until it burned down in 1930.
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Guide boat, Lower Saint Regis Lake, Paul Smith's in background, 1903
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Buildings and structures in Franklin County, New York
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Apollos (Paul) Smith
Brighton, Franklin County, New York
Paul Smiths
Adirondacks
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
P.T. Barnum
E. H. Harriman
Whitelaw Reid
Stephen Warren Morehouse
Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry Regiment
New York Stock Exchange
Upper St. Regis Lake
Spitfire Lake
Seven Carries
Adirondack Architecture
OCLC
1383265
ISBN
0-935272-94-1

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