Yates Hotel

Yates Hotel

Earliest known photograph of the Yates Hotel (from a postcard).

1906 NYSWSA Conference Program, page 3

1906 NYSWSA Conference Program, page 3

This page from the program of the 1906 New York State Woman Suffrage Meeting gives the schedule for the Convention's opening day, which began with an Executive Meeting and closed with a reception at the Yates Hotel.

Yates Hotel Footprint

Yates Hotel Footprint

When first built circa 1892, the Yates Hotel occupied the entire block bounded by East Washington Street, Genesee Street, Montgomery Street, and East Fayette Street. Apparently this was too ambitious to be sustained. By the time of the 1906 NYSWSA convention, the block had been divided into multiple hotels: the Vanderbilt House, the Hotel Manhattan, and the diminished Yates Hotel, which retained the entire Montgomery Street face of the building. The Yates's ground-floor footprint is outlined in green above. The hotel was directly across Montgomery Street from the Grand Opera House (shaded at right), site of a lecture by Robert Green Ingersoll and a production of a musical by L. Frank Baum. The portion of Genesee Street shown proceeding diagonally at upper right no longer exists; both blocks shown now extend north all the way to East Washington Street.

Thanks to Timothy Binga for research assistance.

Yates Hotel, 1920s

Yates Hotel, 1920s

This later image features several automobiles. Note also how the floral plantings (in foreground in the previous image) have been supplanted by shrubbery.

Decline Begins

Decline Begins

Judging by the vehicles, this gaudy color postcard dates from the late 1930s. Even then, the Yates—once Syracuse's grandest hotel—is now described as "moderate priced."

Yates Hotel Site Today

Yates Hotel Site Today

The site of the Yates Hotel viewed across Montgomery Street. At left is the City Hall Parking Lot; at right is the Hills Building, a twelve-story office tower erected in 1928.

Hills Building Entryway

Hills Building Entryway

Ornate carved entryway tablet of the Hills Building, which is adjacent to the Grand Opera House site.

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