Sign 10:  The Exchange Hotel – 1862

Originally built in 1841 and enlarged in 1854, besides serving as a hotel for the bustling Newburgh riverport, the Exchange Hotel depicted in this 1862 photograph was converted to a Union Army hospital and armory during the Civil War and was briefly captured during “Stovepipe” Johnson’s Confederate raid in 1862. It housed Chivian’s Department Store from 1927 to 1973 and was a major attraction to Downtown Newburgh for many of those years.  Its most recent commercial use was as an antique shop.