History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 279 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] It is designated as "the old hotel kept by David Stanley and after-wards by Henry Mandeville." A small hotel for many years previous to L83G stood in the angle formed by the junction of Hillside ■md Highland Avenues. Joseph C. Vought was the host. It was moved over to the western side of the street, and is at present part of a dwelling-house which is the property of Mrs. Harrison T. Smith. In L886 the Franklin House was erected in the forks of the road, on the site vacated by Votight's hotel, and was managed for a few years by Sylvester W. Mande-ville. This building still exists in the same situa-tion, and is used as a dwelling-house. The Eagle Hotel, at present the principal hotel of Peekskill, was originally a small house which stood on the site of the Westchester County National Bank, and was moved about one hundred feet eastwardly on Main Street to make room for the building of the bank in 1834. Very shortly afterwards, Colonel John Williams, who was previously proprietor of the old hotel at Yonkers, converted the building into the Eagle Hotel. He remained proprietor until the early part of 1861. Since 1877, C. C. Clearwater, a native of Orange County, New Y'ork, and for a long time pro-priety of the Smalley House at Carmel, Putnam County, has had the management of the hotel. Mr. Frank Fry being at first associated with him. The hotel has been enlarged by him from ten rooms to forty-eight. It is a large frame edifice, and is three stories in height.