I’ve collected quite a list of boarding house owners from 1920 to 1950. If anyone has more information or photos/postcards!! of the following boarding house owners, it would be greatly appreicated!! You can leave a comment after this post or you can email me: info (at) halfwaybrook (dot) com
Lewis Acor and his daughter Lillian Stidd
Karl Angerstein
Arlington—who owned it and the years.
Peter Barth, Highland Lake
John and Edith Birr
E.H. and Hazel Carroll, Glendella
Gus and Frieda Dasener, on Minisink Ford-Barryville Rd.
M.J. Dennehy, Highland Villa near Highland Lake
Charles and Martha Draxler on York Lake
Charles and Gertrude Frey, Corkscrew Rd.
Gibney, Sunset House, Highland Lake
Margaret Greening
Mary Hankins, Rosemary Lodge
Henry and Elsie Graf, Pine Grove House on Highland Lake
Anna Holden
Walter and Barbara Kramer boarding house
Alice McCaffry manager boarding house
Rose McQuirk
L. Nashour
Mary Portz
Emil Rael and his wife
Gus Rothenbeck
Mary Rennenberg
Anna Rothman (I think between Eldred and Highland Lake.)
Mimie Rupp
Chris and Kathryn Scott, Lakeshore Hotel on Highland Lake
Schoverling, Adelaide and Hillcrest Cottages
Mrs. Edw. Schumacher, Pinehurst Cottage
Seitz, Delaware View Inn
Gustav and Hattie Staubes, Mountain Lake House, Highland Lake
Edwin and Anna Steele
Ella Stidel
Bertha Sullivan
Sulzbach, Pinehurst, Highland Lake
Vonderhorst, Lake View Inn and/or Brookside Farm, Yulan
Louis and Mildred Warshauer, Riverside Cottage
Michael Weber, Pine Beach Inn near Highland Lake
My grandparents, Michael and Elizabeth Weber, owed Pine Beach Inn. They sold it about 1959.
My parents owned the PINE HILL LODGE in Highland Lake from 1961 until 1984. Before my parents, the Lutz family owned the lodge…I believe it was known as the PIERMONT HOTEL years ago. Not sure if that was the name when the Lutz’s owned it. I will do a little more research and check with my mother and post again. Currently, the Lodge is owned by the Gilmore’s who renovated the main building into a beautiful private home.
LES: Thank you for your comment Loretta. The Piermont Hotel was originally owned by the Boyds and is mentioned in both Echo Hill and Mountain Grove and Farewell to Eldred. Pine Hill Lodge is mentioned in Farewell to Eldred.
Alice McCaffrey’s place was in Pond Eddy.
My family, three generations, used to vacation there every summer. It was always the high point of summer.
I’m 65 now but still remember everything about Maple Grove Farm. One thing that was unique was the meal bell and when you left somebody would ring the bell again.
Mike Sherwood, if you see this would you email me any old/new photos that you might have.
My grandparents, Charles and Gertrude Frey, had a full partner all the years they owned Maple Grove Farm on Corkscrew Road. Her name was Minnie Nitzsche and I always refer to her as my “bonus grandmother” because she treated the Frey boys as blood relatives. Her husband Fred was a partner as well, but he passed away long before I was born and, unfortunately, I know very little about him.
Like every boarding house owner/partner, Minnie worked long and hard all summer. She handled the the laundry function as well as the bookkeeping and “marketing” for the boarding house. With several long term employees she managed to keep all the linens clean and ironed for all sixty guests despite having to rely on the sun and air to dry them.
I will never understand how they managed that, but they did.
We live at the former Crandall place,Yulan,N.Y.
The old boarding house is now gone, I remember it as a child.
We built our present home on the old foundation. It was called Cold Spring House.
Regards, Mike Sherwood.