Bartlett House (Ghent, New York)

Bartlett House, a historic railroad hotel, restored in 2016 to house a kitchen, bakery, and cafe. It was built about 1870, and is a three-story, five bay by five bay, square, Italianate style brick building on a raised basement. It features a full width front porch at the primary story and decorative cornice. The name BARTLETT HOUSE appears in white lettering between the second and third stories.^[2]: 3–4

Bartlett House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Bartlett House, February 2015
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Location	2258 NY 66, Ghent, New York
Coordinates	42°19′37″N 73°37′06″W
Area	0.61 acres (0.25 ha)
Built	c. 1870 (1870)
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP reference No.	12000268[1]
Added to NRHP	May 8, 2012

History

The Bartlett House was built in 1870 by Ebenezer Bartlett and served as a hotel for railroad travelers. In the mid-1900s, the hotel was the subject of photographs by Walker Evans. The photos were displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Bartlett House continued to operate as a railroad hotel for the New York and Harlem and Hudson and Boston Railroads until about 1948. After the rail line was abandoned, the hotel fell into many years of disuse.

In 2012, the Bartlet House was added to the National Register of Historic Places .^[1] In 2016, the Barlett House was renovated and is now open to the public as café and bakery. ^[3]