Beardslee Castle
123 Old State Road Little Falls, New York 13365 Phone: (315) 823-3000 800-487-5861 http://www.beardsleecastle.com/ |
Beardslee Castle is always a wondrous place for paranormal researchers. The ghosts always seem to be more than happy to interact and "pose" for pictures. Beardslee Castle is located about 30 minutes from Utica, NY. For directions and hours of operations please visit their website.
We have taken a number of pictures over the years. You may view these pictures and even listen to some amazing EVP's from Beardslee Castle over on the Evidence page. |
O'Connor's Alexander Hamilton Inn
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The Othniel Williams home at 21 West Park Row was begun in the mid-1820's and completed about 1832. The brick sections were the two main parts of the original residence which was in the Williams family until 1938 when it was purchased by a family from Utica, William F. and Ruth W. Newton. He was an attorney.
Extensive gardens extended west to the New York and Ontario railroad. The gingko biloba tree in the Great American parking lot is all that survives the gardens. |
West Park Row Clinton, NY |
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A carriage house that was on the north rear border was removed, piece by piece, and rebuilt at the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown and rests there today next to Bump Tavern. Othniel S. Williams, son of Othniel, was a prominent Clintonian, lawyer, judge, civic leader, entrepreneur, and Hamilton College graduate and later treasurer of the College who occupied the home with his family from his father's death in 1832. President Grover Cleveland and his wife spent a night there during Clinton's centennial celebration in July 1887. Cleveland had lived in Clinton a few years when he was a teenager. From 1942 to 1945 Adain Newell ran it as Hotel Ades. Then Edward W. Stanley and other Clintonians formed Kirkland Properties, Inc. which opened it for the first time as the Alexander Hamilton Inn in April 1946. Since then eight different owners have added a north and south wing and enlarged the rear kitchen area. Current owner, Patrick O'Connor, an Oriskany restaurateur, bought the property in October 1998, and, after extensive remodeling, opened April 2, 1999 as "O'Connor's Alexander Hamilton Inn." Clinton Historical Society. |
Landmark Theatre
362 Salina St. Syracuse, NY 13202-1602 Phone: (315) 475-7979 http://landmarktheatre.org/ |
The theatre was designed by Thomas W. Lamb and was christened Loew's State Theatre on February 18, 1928. Built at the close of the Roaring Twenties, Loew's State offered freewheeling audiences double bills of famous stage acts and first-run moving pictures. When the stock market crashed a year later, patrons continued to flock to the theater, where grandeur replaced despair.
The theater provided the ultimate escape. Often labeled Indo-Persian, architect Lamb further described the theater as "European, Byzantine, Romanesque - which is the Orient as it came to us through the merchants of Venice." Audiences were ushered into Lamb's exotic world through the main lobby, which boasted a chandelier designed by Louis Tiffany for Cornelius Vanderbuilt's mansion, and the grandest of the theater's several huge murals. |
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The Musician's Gallery, located over the front doors, featured quartet serenades as intermission entertainment during the '30s. Patrons who ascended the grand staircase reached the promenade lobby, where they delighted in finding a fish pond with a Japanese pagoda fountain. The main auditorium, which houses 1,832 of the theater's 3,300 seats, was decorated in rich reds and gold's and accented with wall ornaments throughout. The 1,400-pipe Wurlitzer organ offered its own exotic flavor, treating patrons to such sounds as a glockenspiel, marimba, bird whistles, hoof beats and surf sounds. Crowds flocked to Loew's State throughout the Depression and World War II and yet, like so many other great movie palaces (including six razed in Syracuse), the theater's attendance began dropping steadily in the '50s. By 1975, it seemed that the pride of Syracuse would fall prey to the wrecker's ball to allow for parking/shopping complex. However, in 1977, a group of concerned citizens banded together to form the Syracuse Area Landmark Theatre, or SALT. SALT had the local landmark placed on the National Register of Historic Places, opening the door to government funding. By the end of 1977, the group had acquired the theater and began restoring its original splendor. Impressed with the dedication of the SALT volunteers and staff, New York State's Parks Commission began offering ongoing funding, as have Onondaga County and the City of Syracuse. Today, the theater continues its restoration and fundraising efforts, while offering the Syracuse area a full schedule of live performances by the Syracuse Symphony, touring Broadway shows and a wide variety of renowned musicians. |