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The Big Parlor at Cozzens' Hotel, later Ladycliff Academy - Highland Falls, NY
Located at the east end of the hotel, opening out onto a deep, high-ceilinged wrap-around piazza that overlooked a 200 foot drop down to the river below, this room was used for nightly socializing and various entertainments or parties.
The room is 45 feet square and used "tubular lumber" to support the four stories of hallways and guest rooms located directly above it. When the old hotel was sold to the Franciscan sisters in 1899, it appears that most of the original Victorian furnishings and fixtures were still in place. The bronze and crystal gasoliers, Brussels carpet, marble mantels with enormous gilded mirrors above, horsehair seating with antimacassars, and crenelated bookcases lining the walls were considered quite elegant at the time the hotel was built. Evidently much of this furniture came from the 1852 hotel. A good deal of the furnishings were saved from the slow moving fire that destroyed that first building and were then put into storage until this newer hotel was complete, when it was all moved back in, and there it apparently remained for a surprisingly long time.
The Big Parlor at Cozzens' Hotel, later Ladycliff Academy - Highland Falls, NY
Located at the east end of the hotel, opening out onto a deep, high-ceilinged wrap-around piazza that overlooked a 200 foot drop down to the river below, this room was used for nightly socializing and various entertainments or parties.
The room is 45 feet square and used "tubular lumber" to support the four stories of hallways and guest rooms located directly above it. When the old hotel was sold to the Franciscan sisters in 1899, it appears that most of the original Victorian furnishings and fixtures were still in place. The bronze and crystal gasoliers, Brussels carpet, marble mantels with enormous gilded mirrors above, horsehair seating with antimacassars, and crenelated bookcases lining the walls were considered quite elegant at the time the hotel was built. Evidently much of this furniture came from the 1852 hotel. A good deal of the furnishings were saved from the slow moving fire that destroyed that first building and were then put into storage until this newer hotel was complete, when it was all moved back in, and there it apparently remained for a surprisingly long time.