# Nevele Grande Hotel

Ellenville, NY · other · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `n-5e63ac0a46` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/other/ny/ellenville-nevele-grande-hotel/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-5e63ac0a46.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/n-5e63ac0a46.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/n-5e63ac0a46

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | proposed | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Strategy | redevelop, regreen | none |
| New use | hotel, housing, other | none |
| What is there now | demolish remnants of the former Borscht Belt hotel in favor of a new facility with lodging, accompanied by a 126-unit housing development. The former golf course is to be transformed into '...a low maintenance landscape with focused native planting...' | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Opened | 1901 | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Closed | 2009 | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Original developer | Charles Slutsky | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Redeveloper | Somerset Partners | reported · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Parties

- Somerset Partners — developer

## Timeline

- 1901: Nevele Country Club established
- 1901: Opened
- 2009: Hotel closed
- 2009: Closed
- 2020: Report of plans to tear down structures for a sports complex
- 2022: New developer proposing hotel and residential use
- 2023: Property sold with plans for demolition, new lodging, housing, and regreening
- 2024: Fire broke out in winter lodge
- 2025: Fire consumed main building

## Deals and debt

- 2023 sale: 5000000.0 1100 Arrow LLC   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevele_Grand_Hotel

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

The Nevele Grande Hotel (NEV-uh-lee) was a high rise resort hotel located in Wawarsing, New York, United States, just outside Ellenville, New York; it closed in 2009. The Nevele dated back to the days of the Borscht Belt, opening in 1901. “Nevele” is “Eleven” spelled backward — according to lore — after the eleven nineteenth-century schoolteachers who discovered a waterfall within the present-day property. Also (according to family lore), the founder, Charles Slutsky, had eleven children from 1880 to 1906 and the name might have come from that instead.
The hotel closed in 2009. A June 2020 report indicated that the "buildings remain, falling apart and with no future of reuse ...

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevele_Grand_Hotel

## Sources

- Nevele Grand Hotel — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevele_Grand_Hotel

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Nevele Grande Hotel, Ellenville, NY." Record n-5e63ac0a46, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/other/ny/ellenville-nevele-grande-hotel/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_ellenvillenevelegrandehotel,
  title = {Nevele Grande Hotel, Ellenville, NY},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/other/ny/ellenville-nevele-grande-hotel/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record n-5e63ac0a46, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.