Kirkland Hotel

The Kirkland Hotel is a former hotel on the corner of Main Street and Clinton Avenue in Kingston, New York in the United States. Built in Tudor style building was built in the late 19th century.

It is a rare example of an urban incurred in timber frame construction hotel, which was also a locally popular restaurant of the mid-20th century to the beginning of the 1970s. After the closure of the hotel 's efforts to renew the building came to a halt and it almost threatened the demolition of the building. After an award-winning remodeling at the present time it houses offices and apartments. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it is also a contributing part of the Kingston Stockade District.

Building

The building stands on an irregularly cropped land on the eastern edge of the Upper City of Kingston. East of it is a garage in a similar style, south of it there is an office building in the management of the Ulster counties. The neighborhood is urban, but not heavily built; the Old Dutch Church is einundeinhalben road blocks further south on Main Street.

The main body of the hotel is a trapezoidal four-storey building in timber frame construction on a base of stone and brick. Above the entrance in the north- west rises a tower. The roof consists of a complex series of steeply upturned saddle roofs.

Located on the west side, to Main Street, there is a facade of two blocks, each consisting of three bays and gabled roof. In between, there is another entrance. A porch with a steep roof surrounds the building on the first floor completely. The main entrance is located at the foot of a tower at the northeast corner; on top of which there are dome and finial. The northern facade of the Clinton Avenue forms a gable pair. East and south sides not ornamented.

Inside, the building is largely intact. The walls are the original plaster base with plaster, a staircase with spindle made ​​from metal and lathe-turned balusters connects all the floors together.

History

In the place later at the hotel was built, was from 1876 to 1885, a timber yard. Margaret Conklin bought the property in 1889 and built the hotel in the relatively new style of Tudorbethan, which is very different from the usually conservative restrained styles, where the hotels of that time were built mainly. The hotel served all those guests, going about the affairs with the Countyverwaltung, whose offices are located and the Courthouse in the vicinity were.

Conklin sold the hotel in 1917 to George and Jane Holms, which five years later, in 1922, to Samuel and Alice Saulpaugh sold. It was the Saulpaughs who gave name to the hotel. They sold it in 1925 to another couple, John and Mary Eagen. The Eagens operated the hotel until 1948 and sold it in 1950 to Max and Ruth Brugmann. The Brugmann opened the Dutch Rathskeller, the restaurant in the basement of the hotel. In 1968, she joined the hotel and four years later the restaurant. Also in 1972, the porch on the front and the dome of the tower have been removed.

Another owner, opened in 1976 in the basement of a new restaurant, the Cleaver Steakhouse, but made in the same year bankruptcy. When the building was the mid-1980s through the hands of a number of owners who intended to perform a conversion, the city council tried to classify it as a local historic landmark. These efforts failed, as the Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission of the City did not agree to.

Another owner of the building had it in 1988 in cream and green redecoration, but could not carry out further work on the building. In 1996 it came into the possession of the city and threatened with demolition to make way for a parking garage. 2002 bought the Rural Ulster Preservation Company ( RUPCO ), a nonprofit organization, the estate and had it restored, including the formerly distant dome and the porch.

In the course of the renovation, a geothermal heating system was installed, which Heizkostne be saved. Ultimately, the cost of the project 4.7 million U.S. dollars. RUPCO ran into criticism from the unions, because not gewerklich organized craftsmen were involved in the renovation.

The restaurant in the basement was renovated to be possibly used by a new operator. RUPCO rented the premises of the former hotel -residential and offices, as well as to events. The renovated building was one of several awarded the annually awarded by the New York State Preservation League Excellence in Preservation Award in 2007.