Clifton Park Hotel is a historic hotel

Hotel

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 located at Clifton Park

Clifton Park, New York

Clifton Park is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. According to the United States Census Bureau, the 2009 population estimate for Clifton Park was 36,469. The name is derived from an early land patent...

 and Halfmoon

Halfmoon, New York

Halfmoon is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The population was 18,474 at the 2000 census. The town is named for the crescent shape of the land between the Hudson River and Mohawk River....

 in Saratoga County, New York

Saratoga County, New York

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. It was first erected in the 1820s and is a 2-story, timber-framed building sheathed in clapboards and topped by a gable roof. A massive, 2-story wood portico

Portico

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 / piazza

Piazza

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 was added in the 1840s, along with a -story, two-bay, frame addition. The building was renovated in the 1880s and once featured a dance hall

Dance hall

Dance hall in its general meaning is a hall for dancing. From the earliest years of the twentieth century until the early 1960s, the dance hall was the popular forerunner of the discothèque or nightclub...

. The building exhibits a number of Greek Revival

Greek Revival architecture

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 design features. It remained in commercial use into the 1970s.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1998.