February 20, 1923 This hotel was somewhere on Jericho Turnpike in what is now Nesconsets Fire District. Smithtown Fire Department sent companies to the scene. Referenced in the “History of the Smithtown Fire Department 1956” as follows: “We receievd a frantic call from the St. James Eagle Hook and Ladder Company to help put out the disastrous fire that claimed Freides Hotel on Jericho Turnpike in Nesconset”
St. James FD-Friedes Hotel burns
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