What could have been: the Campbell Inn in Roscoe, New York.
The Campbell Inn was constructed in 1900 by hotel builder Jefferson Campbell in the Catskill Mountains of New York. It was early on described as “a little Switzerland in the Catskills.” In 1932, the Wood family acquired it, and it remained locally owned until 1986, when it was acquired by the Stel-Ed Corporation.
A 1917 travel guide for the New York, Ontario & Western Railway described the Campbell Inn as “one of the most attractive and popular Summer homes” in the state. It featured 150 guest rooms, pure spring water, baths, steam heat, and wraparound porches. At the rear of the hotel were Campbell Inn Lake, Wood Brook, and other trout streams.
A 1977 review found the accommodations lacking, with sagging iron cots, leaky sinks, a bare light bulb, and band-aids patching holes in the ceiling. The “Jewish-American” cuisine included greasy bacon, breaded shrimp, and gristly pork.
In May 2001, the Hotel Development Corporation, led by Robert Schwartz, James Ackerly, B. Elton Harris, and others, proposed demolishing the Campbell Inn and replacing it with an $80 million, 11-story, 130-foot-high tower to be named the Campbell Chateau Resort and Health Spa. This new development would include a 200-room hotel with ten two-level penthouse suites, a 50,000-square-foot health spa, an indoor Olympic-size swimming pool, and a restored lake. Additional recreational amenities would include hiking and biking trails, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, fishing, skeet shooting, ice skating, snowmobiling, and more.
It was projected that the new hotel would open in 2004. Due to local concerns and economic conditions, the hotel project was downsized to seven stories but ultimately, the project never came to fruition.
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