Minnewaska Hotel (201 S Grand Ave)
This is the famous Minnewaska Hotel which sat at the corner of 3rd & Grand. On July 26th, 1964 fire engulfed the venerable old building, which hosted 63 units. The open central stairway was blamed...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of the Dome
The Minnewaska, aka The Dome, played host to no small quantity of characters over the course of her life. Over the course of this blog you’ll be introduced to your fair share of them. Here then is a...
View ArticleDome Denizen Smith
July 14, 1949 Grace E. Smith made the Dome her home. From there she made the trek to work down to the Belmont Grill. It’s 1949. She’s a B-girl. Vice has been coming down on prosties of late and joints...
View ArticleA Sick Man Jumps
Location: 201 South Grand Avenue Date: June 9, 1931 Richard Veit, mechanic, resident of the Minnewaska, aged 67 (or so it appears, through the blotchy ink of the news clipping), took his life today by...
View ArticleDomeite Brannon
Date: March 26, 1947 Having described the Dome to you in some detail, we figured it would be in the interest of OBH readers to be kept abreast of the hotel’s tenants. Enter Carl F. Brannon. Carl called...
View ArticleThe Dome’s Jumping Palomino
Monday, January 14, 1963 Bunker Hill’s final days, after its Official Designation as blighted slum, evokes not only decrepit dandified buildings like the Dome, but also its downtrodden denizens,...
View ArticleDueling Babcocks
The history of Bunker Hill could not be written without mention of a man who stood up to face the foe. Who fought City Hall; who fought the law, and sure, the law won. But let’s remember the man....
View ArticleDome Wrap-Up
After our initial report on The Dome, we promised there’d be more, and there was—the Little BGirl Who Could, a couple of jumpers, a self-slashing Simons pilferer, even the owner of the Dome itself,...
View ArticleOf Munsters and Bunker Hill
They were eastern European immigrants, utterly integrated into the ways of American society. They were doting, loving parents; rarely does television depict such a highly functional family. They were...
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