{"nrhp_refnum":"83001758","name":"Pontiac Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"W. 1st St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Oswego","county":"Oswego County","state":"NY","lat":43.43718704200006,"lon":-76.50983891599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story, reinforced concrete hotel at 225 West First Street in downtown Oswego, Oswego County, New York, built in 1912 to designs by George B. Post and Sons.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the hotel is architecturally significant as an eclectic early twentieth-century public building mixing Classical and Mission style details, unique in central upstate New York. It was also the product of an unusual community funding effort to give Oswego a civic center and first-rate hotel. For over fifty years it served as a community focal point for residents and visitors.","narrative":"Built in 1912 on West First Street in downtown Oswego, the Pontiac Hotel is a four-story reinforced concrete building with a stucco exterior, a flat roof and a red tiled pent roof at the cornice. Its design blends Classical and Mission style elements, including pilasters, a balustrade, dentils, a Corinthian-columned portico and a forty-foot domed rotunda at the center of the main level. New York City architects George B. Post and Sons designed it after a building committee reviewed five schemes. Local residents paid for it by buying shares in a hotel corporation, replacing the Doolittle House to give the city a civic center and quality accommodations for tourists. The name Pontiac was suggested by a local historian. For over fifty years the hotel hosted residents, travelers and notable guests. After a decline in the 1970s, a 1982 rehabilitation restored the public areas and converted the upper floors into seventy apartments for elderly residents.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1912)","architect_builder":"George B. Post and Sons","architectural_style":"Eclectic, with Classical and Mission style features","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated in 1982 using historic rehabilitation tax incentives; public areas on the first floor were restored and the upper floors converted into seventy apartment units for the elderly. Listed as occupied, with apartments as the present use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:42.326498-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001758.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001758/fb2181979b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001758/fb2181979b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"LoganTheHammer","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pontiac_Hotel_Oswego.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LoganTheHammer</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pontiac_Hotel_Oswego.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320865","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7228233"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/oswego-county/pontiac-hotel-83001758/"}