Cooperstown
The Otesaga Hotel
The Clark family's 1909 Federal-style resort on Otsego Lake, still theirs, about an eight-minute walk from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Built
- 1909Built 1909 as a seasonal resort hotel for Stephen C. and Edward S. Clark, to Percy Griffin's design (HHA).
- Style
- Federal Revival
- Architect
- Percy Griffin
- Type
- Resort
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district; Historic Hotels of America member
The story
Brothers Stephen Carlton Clark and Edward Severin Clark, heirs of Singer Corporation co-founder Edward Clark, bought about 700 feet of Otsego Lake shoreline and built the hotel in 1909 to Percy Griffin’s Federal-style design. It ran seasonally from spring to fall, and in winter the family leased it to the Knox School for Girls. In 1927 the Clarks converted the neighboring Phinney house into the Cooper Inn, which is no longer open to the public. Stephen Clark founded the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939, about an eight-minute walk away; the Clark family still owns the hotel.
Good to know
- Address: 60 Lake Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.