Sidney Landmark Gives Way to March of Time
Sidney's New Bridge Dooms Old Music Hall
1936
Sidney [Delaware Co., NY]: Music Hall block which once was the tallest building between Binghamton and Oneonta, is being razed to provide a right of way for the new bridge across the Susquehanna.
Sidney approaches to the bridge will be built on the site of the Music Hall block, constructed about 70 years ago.
The structure first was owned by Dr. Hodgins, then taken over by the late David Lewis, who remodeled the old building.
The building was lengthened, porches added, and the third floor made into a theatre. Here, traveling shows and home talent presentations entertained the towns people. The orchestra circle was reversed in this theatre, the reserved section being in the rear with several steps leading upward, the residents readily paying extra tariff for the privilege of occupying this section.
The Hodgins block was the only three-story building between Oneonta and Binghamton when it was first built. Later the more modern brick blocks were built by the Bennett brothers. Thomas G. Smith, Jewett B. Simons, James J. Jameson, Ernest R. Williams and Dr. Charles W. Spencer.
These new buildings overshadowed the old building, and no longer was it pointed to with pride, it was just an old landmark.
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