Restored Hotel Naples Sign Lights South Main Street

Owners Tom and Destiny Salviski reinstalled the original neon sign that had been dark for about 40 years on The Naples Hotel.

Updated on Nov. 7, 2026 in Hospitality

Restored Hotel Naples Sign Lights South Main Street

The original Hotel Naples neon sign, fully restored, now glows nightly over South Main Street at The Naples Hotel. Owners Tom and Destiny Salviski had the sign rebuilt and reinstalled, and possession of the finished sign was taken in late 2025.

Why it matters

The sign had hung above the hotel's front porch since the early 1900s and had been dark for roughly four decades, so its return restores a visible piece of the building's history. The project shows how a historic landmark sign can be brought back to working order after a long period of disrepair.

The sign is about five feet long and nearly four feet tall, and it was dark for about 40 years before the Salviskis restored it. The Naples Hotel has a 131-year history on the site.

The players

Tom and Destiny Salviski

The owners of The Naples Hotel who purchased the building in March 2020 and restored its original neon sign.

Crystal City Signs

The sign shop that rebuilt all of the neon, repainted the sign, and restored it to full working order.

Naples Historical Society

The local historical organization whose representative, Wayne Bouchard, showed Salviski the original sign.

The details

Crystal City Signs rebuilt all of the neon, repainted the sign, and restored it to full working order. Gerry Hoppough, a welder from Cohocton, designed and fabricated a custom steel bracket to hang the sign from the hotel's roof, and Salviski installed each piece of neon glass himself and connected the power supply.

The Salviskis closed on the purchase of The Naples Hotel in March 2020.
By 2020 the neon had been smashed and removed from the sign.
Salviski took possession of the finished sign in late 2025.

Legacy Signage

The restoration returns the original Hotel Naples neon sign to its place above the front porch, where it had hung since the early 1900s. Its reinstallation revives a century-old local landmark that had been dark for about 40 years.

The restored sign now lights South Main Street each night, giving Naples residents and visitors a visible landmark on the hotel's façade. Its return means the hotel's historic identity is once again part of the downtown streetscape.

The takeaway

Historic signs can be restored to working order when owners locate original components, commission specialists, and document the work. The Naples Hotel project shows how a single landmark can return to daily view after decades out of service.