Wayside Hotel, River Street (Steve Parisi collection)

The Wayside Hotel, located just west of the Woolen Mill Bridge on the south side of the Schroon River, was opened in 1889 by Martin Griffin.  The next owner was John Cahill who sold it in 1897 to John Dedrick, a veterinary surgeon.  A year later, Dedrick sold the contents of the hotel at an auction and then the hotel to John Davison of Glens Falls.  Davison ran the hotel for nearly twenty years, until 1917, when Isaac Montena acquired it.  Shortly after Herbert Ingraham bought it in 1923, a fire gutted much of the building.  It was sold to George Glassbrook, who repaired the hotel and turned it into a two-family tenant house.  In the 1950s Anna and Frank Johnson owned the hotel, followed by William and Blanche Steininger, in 1960.  Under different management, the name was changed, first to Spirits and then to CB's.  It closed in 2012.

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The Wayside Inn
137 River St. Tavern 78 Tavern 
137 River St. Tavern
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137 River  Street                                                                                                                                                        Photo/Map #207
This contributing. mid/late-nineteenth  century tavern recalls the historic theme of commercial development  in the hamlet. Although it has received external modifications in the form of shingled and vinyl wall sheathing, roof resheathing and front porch modifications,  it
continues  to exhibit integrity of form., fenestration and function.  It features a 2-story, rectangular, side-gabled  form with a symmetrical
( ) fenestration  pattern, full-length 1-story open porch, two entries on main facade, stone foundation and 2/2 sash.