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Poughkerpsie’s famous hotel, The Central, passed out of existence as a hostelry the past week. The place is to be transformed into apartments. It was the hotel that George Pavello was conducting at the time he was arrested, tried and banished from Poughkeepsie. It is said he is now stopping in Highland, Ulster county, where he can see the city he made his home after leaving Newburgh. The Central has had a checkered career. It is a three-story building located just inside the city limits on the Main street. At the time it was built Poughkeepsie was a prom nent point for drovers to bring their cattle to for transfer to New York, and Caleb Ballard ran the place as a drovers’ hotel. Patrons were plen tiful, and far removed from other structures, it was the scene of many a scrimmage. It also had the repu tation of the'ne a great gambling re sort, but in the Civil War days drunks, gambling and fights were not considered at any great moment so long as neighbors were not interfer ed with Mallard termed it “The Foull’s Head,” which gave way in lat er years to various other titles as landlords came and went. It was known as The Savoy, and un der Pavello as The Central. With the progress of time the hotel became ob jectionable to the neighborhood, which had become populated and changed is designation to Arlington. Every effort to put it out of existence proved unavailing until George Pavello fin ally gave the authorities an opportun ity of compelling the change. It is stated that a church is to be erected on the south side of the thor oughfare, opposite the hotel, on the site of what was once a vast field of rhubarb plants, used in the hotel for making rhubarb wine.
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Middletown Orange County Times Press
Middletown, New York, US
Fri, Sep 02, 1921
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