Visite du Grossinger resort, 2010. //////Visit of the Grossinger back in 2010.
Asher Selig Grossinger moved from New York City to Ferndale in Sullivan County in the Catskill Mountains in the 1900s. There he rented rooms to visitors from New York City. His wife, Malke, operated the kosher kitchen, and Jennie Grossinger (1891--1972), his daughter, was the hostess.[1] They called their home Longbrook House. In 1919, they sold it and purchased a bigger house on 100 acres (0.40 km2), calling it Grossinger's Terrace Hill House.
In 1952, Grossinger's earned a place in the history of skiing as the first resort in the world to use artificial snow.[2] By the time Jennie died in 1972, the hotel had grown to 35 buildings on 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) that served 150,000 guests a year. It had its own airstrip and post office. During his fighting days Rocky Marciano would train at the resort. But in the late 1970s and 1980s, resorts like Grossinger's or the Concord could no longer attract younger guests.
In 1985, the Grossinger descendants sold the property to Hotels International. Ultimately, after aborted renovation attempts, Grossinger's main hotel and main resort areas closed in 1986,[3] but the golf course is still open as of 2011.[4] The members of the gold clubhouse call the course "Big G". Hotels International lost the property in foreclosure and currently the property is considered abandoned.
