751 Comments for Hotel Sterling

the hotel sterling was an irreplaceable priceless piece of history. These buildings are built in ways, with materials, and incredible detail not achieved today. These photos show the beginning of the intentional neglect of cityvest. This building had such character, and in the river street historic district it certainly had the most admiration from the people. They saw our care, the free tax money, and pounced. Leaving thisplace to rot and when that wasn't enough, and they
emptied their LLC accounts, and they walked away
unscathed, cityvest criminals, rogers, shoval, buffalino, etc suckered millions, never paid taxes, and ultimate failure was their goal. motts, your roof shot shows a
roof in good condition, how did it end up with gaping holes??? NEGLECT (10+ million worth of intentional neglect) This building stood for 115 years tgrough countless floods of which washed numerous "market St. bridges" at its foot step, all economic failures, numerous owners, squatters, bums, druggies, and years of cityvest stealing everything of any value, while stating they were "abating asbestos".... BULL SHIT,That place was gutted by the owners. This building was no danger to the streets around it, it would never have fallen. They intended to get the millions, neglect it until its as the paper mongers it an "eye sore", and it may fall on its own, get condemned and "it'll have to go."Not the Sterling... steel and bricks built only way
they knew how in the good old days. bold and powerful it survived, they said the inches of water damaged its structure Lmfao (its not funny people actually believed it...) it didn't and the basement flooded there since the beginning of time, ask anyone. (and the inspection stated they couldn't assess the steel beams, cause they were incased in solid, undamaged concrete...but still claim it was comprised.... epic lies, yet people sip up that koolaid... that building still didn't fall, so they figured they'd monger the fear! Its going to fall! debris falls from the roof and upper levels!!! Shh!!" build a barrier, Shh! "build block the roads, that'll really make people hate it, then we can tear it down!" A year of fighting for a response to the stolen embezzled millions, to try and save the Sterling. Then guess what? shittyvest dissolved. The city sucks up more tax money and decides despite attempts to neglect it to death, make people hate it, make people fear it, and spew dozens of outlandish lies, it still stood right up until the end.
Even with a wrecking ball, and various machines of
destruction. it still isn't leveled, it fought the whole
way. This would have never fallen on its own, never
been a danger, and stood forever. It took mankind to
destroy this historic landmark. These structures are
priceless and not coming back. Nothing can be created like this our modern society build things with
the cheapest materials by the lowest bidder. There is
no detail, no craftsmanship, no charisma in building
these structures. people in this ass backwards town
would rather clear travel on river street than to ask
why its blocked. That area will be a parking lot or a
God damn bank. It makes me sick. Living through the
destruction of this building is an awful memory. Im
ashamed as usual by my peers here in the county and
city. You want to see a real eyesore...gaze around the rest of this dump I see 20 buildings of 0 value in any 5 mile drive around here. All teul lNEEDING demolition which will rot, and literally fall before a barricade or
public slandering occurs to get them knocked down. You would need prime real estate under a landmark hud goldmine to get that all powerful corrupt political agenda to tear it down. It's disgusting to see how the wool pull worked here... maybe they'll put a private for-profit juvenile detention center to be close to the crook house... I mean court house. sean m. corcoran. if you like it look me up, if not get in line with the rest of the politicians and the uneducated who allow blinders to be put up.

THE HOTEL WAS TORN DOWN 07/30/2013 AND MOST OF THE STONE WORK THAT WAS SALVAGEABLE IS IN STORAGE 2 THE SWETLAND HISTORIC HOME IN FORTY FORT AWAITING A PERMANENT LOCATION.

NO VIEW NOW, THE STERLING IS A MEMORY AS OF TODAY, 07/30/2013.....WRECKING BALL TOOK LAST OF THE FRONT CORNER DOWN THIS MORNING. I WAS IN THIS PARTICULAR ROOM MANY YEARS AGO AND THE VIEW WAS SPECTACULAR!!

ITS ALL GONE NOW EXCEPT TO CLEAN UP THE DEBRIS. 5 DAYS AND IT WAS DOWN...

They are now in the process of tearing down this building. Such a shame. City vest never documented where it his they used the 6 million dollars. In my opinion, I don't feel it was in danger of collapsing. You should see the steel beams they are removing!

It's gone,today they pretty much finished the demo of the Sterling,it came down in just 4 days...

the hotel demolition started today, 07/25/2013.sorry to see it go, but it's seen it's better day, was a showplace back in the day . was privigled to have seen it a few times in thev 60's and 70's. they removed a few pieces of the facade stone work and it will be incorporated into whatever is decided upon in it's place. or preserved in another location later. rip sterling!!

How about publishing a book about the hotel ? Collect a bunch of interviews of people that worked there . Add some photos of when it was grand ! It would be a interesting book , and I'm sure thousands of people would buy it , and treasure it forever !!

There getting ready to tear it down.So much money was wasted studying if it was feasable to save this building,if the money was used on the building it would be an asset to the city again,instead officals wasted all the money on stupid things and let the building crumble.

I can see my home in Kingston ....... I pass by this Grand Building every day..... sorry to see it go

Sad to see it being raised ........ History gone ......
The end starts July 25,2013 ... and to think I once sang at this historic site back in 1971

Lily from 2009, this is the future talking to you. The word is "radio" which means "radio" in english, you were probably higher than a crackhouse mouse when you wrote that!

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As of june 2013 the hotel still stands. However it has been officially stated that the demolition ofbthis magnificent building will begin this month or next. Only a fewbweeks left to see it and bask in its once glory...