Former Kentora Hotel

The distinctive and purely decorative onion dome or turret attached to this cornerstone building since 1905 is an exclamation point designating the downtown center. Originally the Empire House Hotel in 1885 (with William Brennan as proprietor) this brick corner building was identified as the Kentora Hotel in 1907. “Kentora” was coined from the owners’ names, Clune and Torpy. Guest rooms were upstairs, and a saloon was downstairs. It was home to the Clinton Drug Store from about 1910 to the 1960s and the popular Sub Galley operated by Anita Creem in the 1980’s and ‘90s.