Greyhound Hotel
Photo Source: Road to Yesterday, Stories of Syracuse in
the Long, Long Ago,
by Byron F. Fellows, Jr. & William F. Roseboom, July 1948.
Text Source: Syracuse and Its Environs, by Franklin H. Chase, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., Chicago, IL, 1924, pg. 311
Traditional and individual was the old Greyhound Hotel. The swinging sign of "The Greyhound" marked its site on the Greyhound Building on the northwest corner of James Street and North Warren. From the 'thirties until the 'seventies it was the most typical of all the inns. As the two-story frame building on rollers was moved off down Genesee Street, to give place to the new building, there could be read this sign upon one end, "the Old Gray Hound Hotel. For forty years it had been kept as an English inn. It was the favorite resort of the genial and happy Englishmen who had made Syracuse their home. "Charlie" Harrison, also given as Henson, born in England and wed to an English girl, dispensed the hospitalities. Mrs. Henson was noted over the country side for her cooking. In the "Old Grey House," as it was called, gathered for a "glass of Charlie's h'ale," English sporting men, cricketers and the butchers of Robber's Row, as the lower end of James Street was called. They placed whilst, drank ale and sang songs in the old English style Those days were long affectionately referred to.
Submitted 19 March 2006 by Pamela Priest
Updated 3 April 2006 by Pamela Priest