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Food & Drink | July 14, 2009

Seneca Falls gets a Hollywood touch

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Upstate NY Restaurant Examiner

Donna Reed, Jimmy Stewart and Grimes

SENECA FALLS, NY -- The owners of the former Gould Hotel are hoping the structure's new name will signal a wonderful second life for it.

The renamed Hotel Clarence is named for the angel from the 1946 Frank Capra film "It's a Wonderful Life." That's in keeping with the contention of many residents of this Finger Lakes village that their community was the inspiration for the film.

Karolyn Grimes, who portrayed Jimmy Stewart's daughter in the film, is expected to attend the opening.

The Hotel Clarence is scheduled to open Thursday of this week. It is a 48-room hotel with a restaurant and banquet facilities, located in a downtown building that opened in 1918 and operated for decades. Two Syracuse-area developers bought the property in 2007.

 

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