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Historic Hotels & Inns in New York

From Manhattan’s grand hotels to Hudson Valley taverns, the spa town of Saratoga Springs, the Adirondack lakes, Buffalo and the Long Island shore: every historic hotel and inn in the state we could verify.

49 historic places to stay in 20 towns · verified October 2026 · by Historic Inns editors

The short answer

New York City has the most, with 23 historic hotels, led by The Plaza, opened on Central Park in 1907, and the Waldorf Astoria, which reopened in July 2025. Saratoga Springs has six, from The Adelphi, opened on Broadway in 1877, to two B&Bs on Union Avenue. In the Hudson Valley, book the 1766 Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck or Mohonk Mountain House, run by the Smiley family since 1869. For a lake resort, stay at The Otesaga, built on Otsego Lake in Cooperstown in 1909, or The Sagamore on Lake George; in Buffalo, The Richardson Hotel fills H. H. Richardson’s Buffalo State Asylum. On Long Island, try The 1770 House in East Hampton or Oheka Castle, Otto Kahn’s 1919 country house in Huntington.

Our top picks

Best overall

The Plaza

Built 1907 · New York

Henry J. Hardenbergh's 1907 hotel facing Central Park, a National Historic Landmark where Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was the first guest to sign…

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Best small inn

The 1770 House

Built 1770 · East Hampton

Matthias Burnett's 1770 house on East Hampton's Main Street, owned by eight generations of Daytons from 1795 and now a restaurant and…

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Most haunted

Hotel Saranac

Built 1927 · Saranac Lake

William Scopes's 1927 hotel, with a Grand Salon inspired by Florence's Davanzati Palace; on HHA's Most Haunted lists in 2024, 2025 and…

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Best resort

The Otesaga Hotel

Built 1909 · Cooperstown

The Clark family's 1909 Federal-style resort on Otsego Lake, still theirs, about an eight-minute walk from the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Where they are

Where to go

New York City22 historic places to stay · founded 1625Oldest: The Beekman (1883)See the guide →Saratoga Springs6 historic places to stay · founded 1819Oldest: Saratoga Arms (1870)See the guide →

Every historic inn in New York

InnTownBuiltRoomsTypePriceHaunted
Hasbrouck HouseStone Ridge1757–Inn–Rates
Beekman Arms and Delamater InnRhinebeck176680Inn–YesRates
The 1770 HouseEast Hampton1770–Inn–Rates
The American HotelSag Harbor1846–Inn–Rates
Mohonk Mountain HouseNew Paltz1869262Resort–Rates
Saratoga ArmsSaratoga Springs187031Boutique hotel–Rates
Batcheller Mansion InnSaratoga Springs1873–Inn–YesRates
The Adelphi HotelSaratoga Springs187765Boutique hotel–YesRates
The Richardson HotelBuffalo1871–80–Boutique hotel–Rates
The BeekmanNew York1883–Grand hotel–Rates
Hotel ChelseaNew York1883–85–Boutique hotel–YesRates
Belhurst CastleGeneva188511Inn–Rates
The Brunswick at SaratogaSaratoga Springs1886–B&B–Rates
The MercerNew York1887–8873Boutique hotel–Rates
The Lenox HotelBuffalo1896–Boutique hotel–Rates
Martinique New York on BroadwayNew York1898–Grand hotel–Rates
The Marlton HotelNew York1900–Boutique hotel–Rates
Union Gables InnSaratoga Springs1901–B&B–Rates
The Algonquin HotelNew York1902–Boutique hotel–YesRates
The Wall Street HotelNew York1902–Boutique hotel–Rates
Hotel BelleclaireNew York1903–Boutique hotel–Rates
The Ned NoMadNew York1902–03–Boutique hotel–Rates
The St. Regis New YorkNew York1904–Grand hotel–Rates
Hotel at the LafayetteBuffalo1904–Grand hotel–Rates
The Peninsula New YorkNew York1905219Grand hotel–Rates
The KnickerbockerNew York1906–Grand hotel–Rates
The PlazaNew York1907282Grand hotel–Rates
The Otesaga HotelCooperstown1909–Resort–Rates
Geneva On The LakeGeneva1910–14–Resort–Rates
Bear Mountain InnBear Mountain191515Lodge–Rates
Oheka CastleHuntington191934Boutique hotel–Rates
TroutbeckAmeniac. 191937Inn–Rates
The Sagamore ResortBolton Landing1923–Resort–Rates
The Bryant Park HotelNew York1923–24–Boutique hotel–Rates
Marriott Syracuse DowntownSyracuse1924–Grand hotel–Rates
Omni Berkshire PlaceNew York1926–Grand hotel–Rates
InterContinental New York BarclayNew York1926–Grand hotel–Rates
The LowellNew York1925–26–Boutique hotel–Rates
The MarkNew York1926–Grand hotel–Rates
The Queensbury HotelGlens Falls1926123Grand hotel–Rates
The Thayer HotelWest Point1926–Grand hotel–Rates
Hotel SaranacSaranac Lake192782Grand hotel–YesRates
The Chestnut InnDeposit192817Inn–Rates
The Inn on BroadwayRochester1929–Boutique hotel–Rates
The PierreNew York1930–Grand hotel–Rates
The CarlyleNew York1929–30–Grand hotel–Rates
Waldorf Astoria New YorkNew York1931375Grand hotel–Rates
JW Marriott Essex HouseNew York1931–Grand hotel–Rates
The Gideon PutnamSaratoga Springs1935123Resort–Rates

Price is a typical nightly rate: $ under $200, $$ $200–349, $$$ $350–549, $$$$ $550+. Rates vary by season; check the inn for exact prices.

Elsewhere in New York

1757Hasbrouck House

Built 1757 · Dutch Colonial (stone) · Stone Ridge · Inn

Hasbrouck House

Why stay A Dutch Colonial stone mansion of 1757 on 55 acres in Stone Ridge, with gardens, trails and a private lake; dogs are allowed in all rooms.

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Beekman Arms and Delamater InnJuliancolton / Public domain

Built 1766 · Colonial (Beekman Arms); Carpenter Gothic (Delamater Inn) · Rhinebeck · Inn

Beekman Arms and Delamater Inn

Why stay A 1766 inn at Rhinebeck's crossroads that calls itself America's oldest continuously operated hotel; HHA says only that it is believed to be.

The ghost story Guests and staff report footsteps, cold breezes, strange smells and whispers, especially in Rooms 21 and 22, and employees tell of a black figure that emerges from the wine cellar; HHA put the inn on its 2025 Most Haunted list.

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1896The Lenox Hotel

Built 1896 · Buffalo · Boutique hotel

The Lenox Hotel

Why stay Opened in 1896 as a luxury suite hotel in Allentown and host to Pan-American Exposition visitors; some rooms now have full kitchens.

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1910–14Geneva On The Lake

Built 1910–14 · Italian Renaissance Revival · Geneva · Resort

Geneva On The Lake

Why stay The Nester family's 1910–14 villa on Seneca Lake, modeled on Frascati's Villa Lancellotti; only three suites are in the original villa.

Good to know Pets welcome

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c. 1919Troutbeck

Built c. 1919 · Amenia · Inn

Troutbeck

Why stay A 250-acre estate on the Webutuck River whose c. 1919 Manor House holds 17 of the 37 rooms; Benton Cottage dates to about 1770.

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Hotel SaranacDclemens1971 / CC BY 4.0

Built 1927 · Classical Revival · Saranac Lake · Grand hotel

Hotel Saranac

Why stay William Scopes's 1927 hotel, with a Grand Salon inspired by Florence's Davanzati Palace; on HHA's Most Haunted lists in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

The ghost story Believers say a man in a black suit, tails and top hat who roams the halls is Howard Littell, longtime superintendent of the high school that stood on the site; guests also report a ghost cat scratching on the third floor and singing on the sixth. The hotel has appeared on HHA's Most Haunted lists in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

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1928The Chestnut Inn

Built 1928 · Rustic lakeside hotel · Deposit · Inn

The Chestnut Inn

Why stay Samuel Retzer's 1928 Hotel Monoquaga on Oquaga Lake, with a 100-foot porch and American chestnut woodwork; 17 rooms, restored in 2023.

Good to know Breakfast: included

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1929The Inn on Broadway

Built 1929 · Rochester · Boutique hotel

The Inn on Broadway

Why stay Rochester's 1929 University Club, now a hotel that kept the club's original woodwork, with suites that have fireplaces or soaking tubs.

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Ways in

Themes in New York

Manhattan’s Gilded Age and Jazz Age grand hotels

Fifth Avenue’s grand hotels went up in the first years of the 1900s: John Jacob Astor IV’s St. Regis (1904), the Gotham, now The Peninsula, built in 1902–05, and Henry J. Hardenbergh’s Plaza, opened in 1907 facing Central Park. Writers and actors gathered at The Algonquin, opened in 1902, where the Round Table lunched after World War I. In the 1920s, ‘Terminal City’ grew up around Grand Central, with the Berkshire and the Barclay both opening in 1926, and Schultze & Weaver’s Waldorf-Astoria followed in 1931. Closed in 2017, the Waldorf reopened in July 2025 with 375 rooms. Downtown, the Hotel Chelsea, a cooperative apartment house of 1883–85, was home to writers and artists from Thomas Wolfe to Dylan Thomas.

Hudson Valley inns and Mohonk

In Rhinebeck, the Beekman Arms was built in 1766 beside William Traphagen’s 1704 tavern. The inn calls itself America’s oldest continuously operated hotel; Historic Hotels of America says only that it is believed to be the oldest continuously running inn. Franklin D. Roosevelt closed his campaigns with talks from its porch. In Stone Ridge, Hasbrouck House is a Dutch Colonial stone mansion of 1757 on 55 acres, and in Amenia, Troutbeck’s c. 1919 manor house stands on a 250-acre estate. On the Shawangunk Ridge, Albert Smiley bought the Stokes Tavern on Lake Mohonk in 1869, and six generations of Smileys have run Mohonk Mountain House, a National Historic Landmark. In the Hudson Highlands, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission opened Bear Mountain Inn in 1915, and at West Point The Thayer Hotel opened inside the academy’s gates in 1926.

Saratoga Springs and the Adirondacks

Saratoga Springs has six historic stays. The Adelphi Hotel (1877) and Saratoga Arms (1870) are downtown on Broadway, and Union Gables Inn (1901) and The Brunswick (1886) are B&Bs on Union Avenue, the street that runs out to the race course. The Batcheller Mansion Inn (1873), by Congress Park, is for adults only, and New York State opened The Gideon Putnam in Saratoga Spa State Park in 1935 for visitors taking the mineral-water cure. On Lake George, The Sagamore first opened on Green Island in 1883; the present Colonial Revival hotel dates from 1923. Glens Falls has The Queensbury Hotel, opened in 1926, and Saranac Lake has the 1927 Hotel Saranac, on Historic Hotels of America’s Most Haunted lists from 2024 to 2026.

Buffalo, the Finger Lakes and central New York

Buffalo has three historic hotels. The Richardson Hotel fills H. H. Richardson’s Buffalo State Asylum, a National Historic Landmark on grounds Frederick Law Olmsted designed, whose first buildings were complete by 1880. The Hotel Lafayette, designed by Louise Blanchard Bethune, opened on Lafayette Square in 1904, and The Lenox opened in Allentown in 1896. Rochester’s 1929 University Club is now The Inn on Broadway, and the Hotel Syracuse, financed by local shareholders and opened in 1924, reopened as Marriott Syracuse Downtown in 2016. On Seneca Lake in Geneva, choose between Belhurst Castle, begun in 1885, and Geneva On The Lake, a 1910–14 villa modeled on one at Frascati. In Cooperstown, the Clark family opened The Otesaga on Otsego Lake in 1909.

Road trip

New York City to Saratoga Springs, inn to inn

New York City

Start with two nights in Manhattan, at The Plaza on Central Park or The Algonquin near Times Square. Pick from our New York City guide.

New Paltz

Stay at Mohonk Mountain House on the Shawangunk Ridge, where rates include meals and activities and overnight guests park free.

Rhinebeck

Book the Beekman Arms and ask for an upper-floor room in the original inn: those date from 1766, while the inn’s other rooms are in the 1844 Delamater Inn and later guest houses.

Saratoga Springs

Finish in Saratoga Springs, at The Adelphi Hotel on Broadway or a B&B on Union Avenue, the street that runs out to the race course.

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Context

History and architecture

New York ratified the Constitution at Poughkeepsie on July 26, 1788, by a vote of 30 to 27, becoming the 11th state. The oldest buildings on our list are colonial: Hasbrouck House’s 1757 stone mansion in Stone Ridge, the 1766 Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck and The 1770 House in East Hampton. Sag Harbor’s American Hotel building dates from 1846, the peak of the town’s whaling trade, and the 19th century brought hotels for vacationers: Mohonk on its mountain lake (1869), The Adelphi in Saratoga Springs (1877) and The Sagamore on Lake George (1883). Manhattan’s landmark hotels followed, from The Algonquin (1902) and The Plaza (1907) to the Waldorf-Astoria (1931). Upstate, local backers built hotels for their own cities in the 1920s: the Hotel Syracuse, financed by local shareholders, opened in 1924, and the Glens Falls Hotel Corporation opened The Queensbury in 1926.

Questions travelers ask

What is the oldest hotel in New York?

Of the inns we list, the Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck has the earliest start: it was built in 1766 beside a 1704 tavern. The inn calls itself America’s oldest continuously operated hotel; Historic Hotels of America says only that it is believed to be the oldest continuously running inn. The oldest building is Hasbrouck House in Stone Ridge, a 1757 Dutch Colonial stone mansion that is now a hotel. In New York City, Martinique New York on Broadway opened first, in 1898.

What is the most haunted hotel in New York?

There is no official ranking. Historic Hotels of America’s Most Haunted lists have featured Hotel Saranac in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and the Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck and The Algonquin in Manhattan in 2025. At Hotel Saranac, believers say a man in a top hat who roams the halls is a former superintendent of the school that stood on the site; at the Beekman Arms, guests tell of footsteps and whispers in Rooms 21 and 22. These are stories guests and staff tell, not documented fact.

Where are the historic hotels in Saratoga Springs?

We list six: The Adelphi Hotel (1877) and Saratoga Arms (1870) downtown on Broadway; two B&Bs on Union Avenue, Union Gables Inn (1901) and The Brunswick at Saratoga (1886); the adults-only Batcheller Mansion Inn (1873) by Congress Park; and The Gideon Putnam (1935) in Saratoga Spa State Park.

Are there historic inns on Long Island?

Yes, three we list. In East Hampton, The 1770 House is Matthias Burnett’s 1770 house on Main Street, now a restaurant and inn, and in Sag Harbor, The American Hotel fills an 1846 building from the whaling era that took its name in 1876. On the North Shore, Oheka Castle in Huntington is financier Otto Kahn’s 1919 country house, with 34 guest rooms. Montauk Manor isn’t listed because it takes stays by request form, not online booking.

Where are the best historic bed and breakfasts in New York?

Most of the state’s historic stays are hotels and inns. For a B&B, go to Saratoga Springs: Union Gables Inn, a 1901 Queen Anne mansion with an outdoor pool, serves a made-to-order breakfast, and The Brunswick at Saratoga serves a full breakfast in an 1886 Gothic Victorian house. The Chestnut Inn on Oquaga Lake, a 1928 lakeside hotel with 17 rooms, calls itself a bed and breakfast.

How we chose these inns

Every place on this page is at least 50 years old, holds a credential we can check (National Register listing, a listed historic district, landmark status, or Historic Hotels of America membership), and takes bookings today. We verify each one against primary sources before it goes on the list, and last checked this list in October 2026. Read our criteria.

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