SHARON SPRINGS revisited ADVENTURE!!

My sister and I decided to take a day trip today. I was looking through my notes for ideas about interesting places we might go, and I had a few ideas in mind but then I came across my information about SHARON SPRINGS! Its been over a year since our last trip there and we LOVE that adorable village, so we headed out first thing this morning.

We turned on my GPS and followed its directions, but when we got to Cooperstown and were pointed down the road on the east side of the lake, and the ROAD CLOSED signs were still up, we tried to find another route. I think we probably drove for about fifteen extra minutes but we finally reached our destination.

Our first stop was at the BEEKMAN 1802, a shop in the Old Roseboro Hotel.
This year, they have some very nice miniature scenes set up in some of their front windows.
Then we went to THE BLACK CAT. We looked at the menu and decided to return later on when we were hungrier.

We "urban explored" the Columbia Hotel and the building next to the IMPERIAL BATHS. I got some great pictures. Both places have deteriorated a bit since the last time we went inside. Its apparent that a lot of people have been in The Columbia, and also that there is water leakage. In The Columbia, we could not find our way into the basement area that used to be used as a bathhouse.

We drove around a bit and saw another large old hotel, on the corner of Union and Willow Streets. The steps and porches have been removed.
There was a open window leading into the basement on one side of the building, and we think that urban explorers may use that to get inside. We looked for the ruins of the PAVILION HOTEL and we may have seen them (kind of behind the Adler on Pavilion Avenue), but we are not sure. I took a picture of this old water tower.


We decided to not eat at THE BLACK CAT and instead we had a smaller, cheaper lunch at one of the convenience stores on the corner of 10 and 20. We checked out the one that looked more interesting from the front: but it had kind of an eerie feel to it, so we had chicken salad sandwiches and chocolate milk at the Stewart's across the street.

We wanted to go into this shop which I had heard was formerly a drug store but it was closed. We located another place to eat that we had not known about before, and checked it out, it was also closed.


As we were leaving Stewarts to go geocaching, it started to sprinkle, but we did not let that stop us: we found three geocaches on the other side of Sharon Springs rather quickly. Then we headed back up Route 10 towards Route 20. We stopped to take a couple of pictures of THE BEEKMAN MANSION. It is quite impressive. We drove through a few very small villages, but none of them seemed very picturesque.

Once back in Oneonta, we made a couple of quick stops before getting back to my house around 4:30 p.m. We had a great day!!!