Tuesday, January 17, 2012

☞ REMEMBER: The Claremont Inn circa 1910

An old postcard from 1910 shows the long gone Claremont Inn as it stood at the turn of the century.  The historic house was a main attraction uptown before Grant's Tomb was built and the two became a duo destination spot for decades after the monument's completion.  Sometimes in the 1950s, the Claremont would eventually burn down after years of neglect and was replaced by a playground at this section close to 124th Street and Riverside Drive.

Rotograph Co. New York, NY, Claremont N.Y. City, ca. 1910 via the digital collection at the Museum of the City of New York

2 comments:

  1. Wow, looks like something you would see by a seaside pier in England. What a shame that it is no longer there.

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