Stagecoach Inn with a Rooftop Tragedy in Greene, NY
25 Genesee St, Greene, NY 13778
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Hotel rooms from approximately $104/night; restaurant and bar service available on-site.
Access
Limited Access
Historic multi-story building with stairs
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1913 · Stagecoach Era Inn · Continuous Hospitality Operation
Greene sits in the Chenango River valley, a Southern Tier town shaped in the early 1800s by stagecoach routes connecting Binghamton to the Mohawk Valley. The Sherwood Hotel traces its lineage to 1807, when Isaac Sherwood, a prosperous local stagecoach operator, built a tavern at the edge of a cedar swamp to serve as the headquarters of his line. The original structure stood for nearly a century before fire destroyed it in the early 1900s.
The present building was reconstructed in 1913, in the same footprint, and that 1913 structure is what stands today at 25 Genesee Street. The hotel has carried the Sherwood name across multiple ownership changes, most recently transferring to new owners in the 2020s. It currently operates 20 guest rooms, including a balcony suite and a bridal suite with a whirlpool tub, alongside a ground-floor restaurant, bar, and event space.
The building's history follows a familiar Southern Tier pattern: a stagecoach inn evolves into a railway-era hotel, persists through the highway-bypass era when many similar inns shuttered, and finds a second life as a destination restaurant and small wedding venue. The Sherwood is locally recognized as one of Greene's oldest continuously operating businesses, and its upper-floor rooms retain much of their early 20th-century proportions and trim.
Sources
The Sherwood's central legend involves a young woman, named in some accounts as Rebecca, who is said to have jumped from the top-floor balcony following a breakup. Original room numbering, drawn from older accounts, places her stay in Room 28; current room numbering places the most-reported activity in Rooms 207 and 209. Both renderings appear in local coverage and visitor reports.
Reported phenomena cluster around the second-floor hallway and the dining room. A 2015 guest account, repeated across local paranormal coverage, describes hearing a woman screaming and doors slamming repeatedly over a four-hour stretch overnight, audible to only a small subset of guests on the floor. Other reports describe beds rocking in unoccupied rooms, the sound of laughter from what appears to be a sizable crowd in empty hallways, and doors opening and closing in patterns suggestive of foot traffic.
Less frequently, staff have reported a residual sense of presence in the basement and the dining room, both areas the hotel uses heavily for events. The building's reputation has drawn occasional paranormal investigators and a TikTok-driven wave of overnight guests in recent years, though the hotel's primary operation remains conventional lodging and dining rather than ghost-tourism.
Notable Entities
Book a room at the 1913 hotel in downtown Greene. Local lore identifies Rooms 207 and 209 as the most active; guests have reported hearing doors slamming repeatedly through the night and the sense of a presence in the upstairs hallway.
The hotel operates a full restaurant and bar on the ground floor. A meal here is the easiest way to experience the building without an overnight commitment.
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