Old Hidden Hotels in Schermerhorn Row

The Rogers’ Hotel and Dining Saloon opened in 1850 at 4 Fulton Street, as a typical nineteenth-century waterfront refectory and saloon. In 1864, management was passed to Abraham Sweet, who ran (with additional generations of his family) Sweet’s hotel and restaurant until 1992, expanding it to 6 Fulton Street.

The Fulton Ferry Hotel at 92-93 South Street was named so in 1875 when Friederick and Henry Lemmermann bought the Mackinley Hotel that occupied the same address prior. The hotel stayed in business until ca. 1935.