Kutsher's was the longest-running resort of the Borscht Belt, the Jewish summer-vacation kingdom that ran wild through the Catskills from the 1920s into the 1960s. Founded in 1907 as a small farm boarding house, it grew over four generations into a sprawling family-run resort with golf greens, tennis courts, indoor pools, ice rinks, and one of the most famous comedy stages in upstate New York. Its showroom served as a proving ground for an entire generation of stand-up comics, and its annual charity basketball game drew the biggest names in the NBA. After 106 summers, the family finally closed the doors in 2013, and the bulldozers came the next year.

Part of our Retro Hotel collection, featuring the iconic locations of yesteryear.