Elston Hall
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Hotel Van Curler
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East (front) elevation, 2008
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| Location | Schenectady, NY |
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| Coordinates | 42°48′52″N 73°56′59″W / 42.81444°N 73.94972°WCoordinates: 42°48′52″N 73°56′59″W / 42.81444°N 73.94972°W |
| Built | 1925 |
| Architect | H.L. Stephens and Co. |
| Architectural style | Georgian Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 85002277 |
| Added to NRHP | 1985 |
Elston Hall, formerly the Hotel Van Curler, is located on Washington Street in the city of Schenectady, New York, United States. It is a tall brick building constructed in 1925 in the Classical Revival architectural style.
Its construction was partially financed by local employers General Electric and the American Locomotive Company, which needed space for new workers to live and wanted an architecturally distinctive building comparable with large city hotels of the era. Today, it is one of the main buildings of Schenectady County Community College.
Elston Hall is located at the northeast corner of the 57-acre (23 ha) college property, right at the corner of State (NY 5) and Washington streets. Only the two acres (8,000 m²) on which the building sits is included in the listing. To the south Washington feeds into Interstate 890; the Schenectady Armory, also listed on the National Register, is located almost across Washington. Directly across from the building, on the east side of Washington, is a garden with a fountain. On the north Washington is part of the , the oldest section of Schenectady. One block to the west, State crosses the Mohawk River via the Western Gateway Bridge to Scotia.
The building itself is six stories high, faced in limestone-trimmed brick over a reinforced concrete frame. It is H-shaped, with the north wing shorter than the south due to an extension of the main dining room, topped by a gabled roof with wooden eaves shingled in slate. Some other wings have been built on to the structure since the college began using it. They are too modern to be considered contributing to its historic character.
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