Elephant Hotel - Somers, NY - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

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The Elephant Hotel, a.k.a. the Somers Town House, was built between 1820 and 1825 in the Federal style by Hachaliah Bailey, who owned a travelling menageries that included an Asian elephant known as Old Bet. The menageries later became part of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus. The inscription Elephant House is painted across the building to commemorate Old Bet. A monument honoring Old Bet is on the grounds of the building. The Elephant Hotel became the economic and social center of Somers. It served as a stage coach stop and meeting place for circus people.

From 1839 to 1905 the Farmers and Drovers Bank of Somers occupied the the part of the building which now serves as the Town Clerk's office. The Hotel was purchased by the Town of Somers in 1927. It currently houses the Somers Town Hall, the Somers Historical Society and the Museum of the Early American Circus on the third floor.

The building has been listed on the national Register of Historic Places in 1974, as the Somers Town House, and designated as a National Historic Landmark on April 5, 2005 as the Elephant House.

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