Curriculum Materials: Art in America
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Image 10 Jasper Cropsey Questions: |
The Grand Hotel
Also popular was the famous Catskill Mountain House,
built in 1823 on a steep mass of rocks 2,200 feet above sea
level. People from around the world visited this white
NEOCLASSICAL hotel,
acclaimed for the fabulous views it provided of the sunrise.
To reach the hotel from New York, guests traveled by
steamboat up the Hudson River and then rode a stagecoach for
another four hours. Once at the hotel, they enjoyed the
beauty of the wilderness with all the conveniences of home.
Visitors knew the Catskill Mountain House as the Grand
Hotel, but local residents called it Yankee Palace. The
mountain house was demolished in 1963.
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