Various: David Chapman 1825–1835; Parkhurst Whitney 1835–1846; Solon Whitney, Dexter R. Jerauld and James F. Trott (under Whitney, Jerauld, and Company) 1846–1891; Peter A. Porter 1891–1909; John F. MacDonald 1909–1937; Union Trust Company 1937–1945; Eagle Tavern Corporation 1945
Technical details
Floor count
5
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Walter Williams (master builder for 1845 additions)
The Cataract House was a hotel in the neighborhood of Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls, New York. The hotel was established in 1825 but destroyed by fire in 1945. It was a major stop on the Underground Railroad and it was the largest hotel in Niagara Falls. The hotel's name refers to the large and powerful waterfall next to property.
The CataractHouse was a hotel in the neighborhood of Buffalo Avenue in Niagara Falls, New York. The hotel was established in 1825 but destroyed by fire...
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and early settler of Niagara Falls, New York who owned the prominent CataractHouse. Whitney was born in Conway, Massachusetts on September 25, 1784, the...
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sight of over 180,000 people across Africa and Asia using small-incision cataract surgery. Ruit is the founder and the executive director of the Tilganga...
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African-American residents. Other exhibits include a recreation of the CataractHouse, a Niagara Falls hotel that employed an entirely African-American wait...
acquired various tracts of land (including land later used for the CataractHouse), became school commissioner in 1819, Justice of the Peace in 1821....
mansion. Davis suffered recurring bouts of malaria, facial neuralgia, cataracts (in his left eye), unhealed wounds from the Mexican War, including bone...
NOT less likely to progress to needing cataract surgery. The authors speculated that there may be a cataract prevention benefit for people with low dietary...
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river in 1872. A tourist lodge and dancing establishment known as The CataractHouse was operated near the falls between 1860 and 1888, and a food and novelty...
ophthalmologist and one of the first American-born physicians to perform a cataract operation, owned a parcel of land near the courthouse square in Frederick...
(43%), cataracts (33%), and glaucoma (2%). Refractive errors include near-sightedness, far-sightedness, presbyopia, and astigmatism. Cataracts are the...
Davey 1940 Craig Davidson 1976 novelist, short stories Rust and Bone, Cataract City True Davidson 1901 1978 poet, fiction, non-fiction The Golden Strings...
An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara is a historic watercolour of Niagara Falls painted on site by Thomas Davies (c. 1737–1812) in 1762. It was...
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