Fallsburg
Old Falls Scenic Overlook
Marker Location: Old Falls Scenic Overlook at the intersection of Route 42 and Old Falls/Brickman Roads (across from Stewart's). For driving directions click here.
HISTORIC MARKER TEXT
The story of the tourism industry in Sullivan County, particularly in the Town of Fallsburg, is vast and vibrant. Fallsburg was a major hub of the Borscht Belt. This segment of Route 42, known as “Hotel Row,” led to about 79 hotels and 107 bungalow colonies. One of the first Fallsburg hotels was The Flagler. The Flagler family opened it as a Christian resort in the 1870s. In 1908, it was sold to Jewish developers who retained the original name for guests to believe it was connected to the luxury hotels built in Florida by oil tycoon Henry Flagler. Flagler’s hotels inspired a style of Borscht Belt architecture. Characterized by stucco, pastel colors, arched windows and parapets, and later known as Sullivan County Mission style, it was favored at many resorts. Other notable area destinations were the Ambassador, Eldorado, Olympic, Furst, and Lebowitz Pine View hotels, and the Phyl-Bob Colony Day Camp.
DEDICATION SPEAKERS
Marisa Scheinfeld, Founder, Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project
Isaac Jeffreys, Public Relations & Visual Coordinator, Borscht Belt Historical Marker Project
Roberta Byron-Lockwood, President and CEO, Sullivan County Visitors Association
Sean Wall Carty, Deputy Supervisor Town of Fallsburg
Nathan Steingart, Steingart Associates
Marilyn Silfen, Daughter of Jean and Phil Sevush, Owners of the El Dorado Hotel.
fallsburg hotels and bungalow colonies
HOTELS:
Alpine Hotel
Ambassador Hotel (now Catskills Playland amusement center)
Barlau Hotel (formerly Branlip Hotel)
Biltmore Hotel
Blue Eagle (formerly Hotel Wadler)
Branly’s
Brickman's (formerly Pleasant Valley Farm, now Syddha Yoga Ashram)
Butler Lodge
Cedar Hill Hotel
Claremore
Cohen’s Villa
Colonial
Columbia
Commodore Hotel
Daisy View
Didinsky's Villa
Elm Shade Hotel
Fain Lodge
Fallsburg Country Club
Fallsburg Mansion (now public housing)
Farm Lodge
Flagler Hotel (now Crystal Run School)
Flamingo Hotel
Hotel Furst
Gilbert's (now Syddha Yoga Ashram)
Grand View House
Heiden Hotel
Hoffman House
Irvington Hotel (formerly Hotel Glass)
Laurel Park Hotel (now Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Moshe)
Leifert Hotel
Liss Hotel
Hotel LeRoy
Hotel Levitt (formerly New Prospect)
Lorraine Hotel
Majestic Hotel
Mohawk Hotel
Mountain View
Murray Hill Hotel (now Dynamite Youth Center)
Nassau
Nemerson Hotel (later DeVille, now Yeshiva Viznitz)
New Lake View House
New White Rose Hotel
Oakland Hotel
Oddfellow’s House
Oliver Hill Hotel
Olympic
Pancrest Lodge
Peckler Hotel
Pine View Hotel
Pines Hotel (formerly Moneka Lodge)
Platt’s
Plaza Hotel
Premier Hotel
Prenner
Raleigh Hotel (formerly Ratner's)
Regal
Riverdale Hotel
Riverside Hotel
River View Hotel
Rosalia House
Rose Inn
Roseland’s House
Royal Inn
Russell House
Sandler and Forman
Saxony (later Polonia)
Schenk's Paramount (now Camp Shalva)
Seletsky's Villa
Senate
Hotel Summit
Sunrise
Traymore
Tree of Life Hotel
Turner Villa
Victoria House
Waldorf House
Washington Mansion
Windsor Hotel (formerly The Lakeside, now Syddha Yoga Ashram)
Zeiger's (later El Dorado, then Palms)
BUNGALOWS:
Abel’s
Altman’s Cottages
Avon Riverside
Samuel Bernhard
Barron’s Cottages (now Summer Garden Cottages)
Berger's Farmhouse and Bungalows
Blech’s (later Sun Circle)
Brookside
Bulgatz’s
Calvin’s
Chai Manor
Colony Hill Bungalows
Cooper’s Bungalows
Cornyn’s Roadside Colony
Cutler’s Cottages
Daitch’s Paradise Inn
Deer Mountain Resort Colony
Delmar Colony
Dishner’s Bungalows
East Pond Cottages
Echo Lake Manor
Edelman’s Cottages
Elm Shade Colony
Evergreen Cottages
Falzack Acres Bungalows (Pine Circle Estates, coop since 1981)
Farber's Lane
Feldman’s
Fried’s
Friedman’s
Friendship Cottages
Gee-Mar Colony
Genden’s Bungalows
Gold and Rados (now Silvergate)
Grand House
Graystone Manor
Green’s
Greenwood Park
I & R Gross Bungalows (previously Gartner’s)
Grossgold’s Bungalows
Guild Manor Bungalows (previously Grew’s Bungalows)
JFH Bungalows
Helenas Bungalows
Hochman's Colony Hill
Hoffman’s
Holiday Bungalows
Irvington Bungalows
David Jacoby
Kamenetsky’s
Kass Villa
Langer’s Bungalows
Lazarovic Cottages
Lederman’s
Levine's
Levner’s
Mathisson Bungalows
Maywood Colony
Metropolitan Bungalows
Morning Star Cottages
Morick Lodge
Mulberry Cottages
Mur’s
Nan Acres (officially named Sher-Ivy Nan Acres; previously Kan Acres)
New Victory
Oretsky’s
Pancrest Lodge
Paradise Inn
Phyl-Bob Colony
Pine Haven Bungalows
Pine Hill Cottages
Podwill’s
Joseph Richman
Richman’s Happy Acres (originally Richman’s Rest)
Rosabee Bungalows
Rose Inn
Rose-Mor Colony
Sabow's Roadside Bungalow Colony.
Salon’s
Sanford
Schiekowitz’s
Schultz Bungalows
Schwartz’s Riversite Bungalows
Doris Sempf
Seven Brothers
Senortuc Cottages
Sam Schlafrock's
Eve Sherman’s Cottages
Skops Bungalows
Sim’s Resort Colony
Solow’s Green Acres
Speckhardt’s Bungalows
Steiglitz
Stuzin’s
Sun Circle
Sunny Hill
Sunrise Colony
Taub's Maple Grove
Town Cottages
Town and Country
Tucker’s Bungalows
Weiss Cottages
Wiener’s
Wolfie’s Bungalows
Woodfall’s Bungalows
Zakarin’s
Lebowitz Pine View Hotel