*Our aim is to be an experience & moment in time for guests.*

**Not just a building, but an emotional memory.**

“*I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.*”

- John Burroughs, American Naturalist & Essayist

Our approach to hospitality

There lives a place in everyone’s deepest emotional memory that is at once peaceful, comforting, energizing, and settling to one’s soul. It is a place that can heal, at times, and provide a safe place for contemplation at others. Our Grandmother’s kitchen, a summer cabin or cottage on a lake, or the shore where the breeze has its own flavor.

No matter what the emotional context of the particular moment in life, this physical place provides a platform to explore it. When we close our eyes we can feel this place as much as we can see it. It surrounds us with warmth.

It is the feeling of what happens to one’s body and mind when we find ourselves taking a deep, long breath and exhaling it. The effect is immediate and changes everything about us in an instant.

Kenoza Hall aims to be an experience & moment in time for guests. Not simply a building, but an emotional memory.

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We are happy to welcome our old friends back and glad to greet new friends.

-- The Armbrust Family Welcome Letter

The Building’s History

Some of the earliest boarding houses in the Catskills were developed as far back as the late 1800s, serving as a weekend escape from the city. The Kenoza House was built around the same time and was opened in the early 1900s by John W. Armbrust. Best known through much of the heyday of the Silver (1900-1945) and Golden (1945-1965) Ages of the Catskills, as the Kenoza Lake Armbrust House, when the region was one of the most famous vacation destinations in the U.S.

By the 1950s, Kenoza Lake Armbrust House was one of 500+ hotels in the area. Shortly after, the Quik family bought the property and used it as their private residence - thankfully maintaining the building’s strong bones before Sims & Kirsten Foster, of Foster Supply Hospitality, purchased the property in 2017, reopening as Kenoza Hall in Summer 2020 after extensive renovations.