ATHENS, NY -- The Stewart House Restaurant and B&B is in the process of changing hands.
Owen Lipstein, who has overseen a years-long ongoing renovation of the historic building on the bank of the Hudson River in this Greene County community, is selling to a local partnership headed by Reggie Young.
The Victorian-style building has been in operation on various levels since 1883. That is when Hardy Stewart, a local businessman and one-time sheriff, built his three-story hotel and restaurant opposite the river docks where commercial ferries once called regularly to pick up produce from local farmers. Steamboat passengers, many headed to nearby Catskill resorts, and crewmen were regulars at the Stewart House.
Lipstein, a former New York City magazine entrepreneur, acquired it in 2000 and reopened it in May of 2004 as a restaurant and bed-and-breakfast. Prior to that purchase, the building once had enough atmosphere to be used for a Meryl Streep death scene in the 1987 film "Ironweed."
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The Stwart House has gone down the toilet. The new management don't know what to do with this historic building. The food sucks and the service is nill. I hope they can find the proper management to run this place so that it can become profitable and ad a value to the village of Athens
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