How Many Cold Spring Gingerbread House Businesses Can You Name? [GALLERY]

Every year as part of its Santa Day festivities, Cold Spring holds a gingerbread house competition for area businesses.  Participating establishments will decorate their house and then drop them off at city hall to be judged from December 5th to the 8th. Cold Spring Chamber of Commerce Administrator Vienna Meyers says the Cold Spring Bakery supplies all the kits, and then establishments have about two weeks to come up with their design and enter them into the gingerbread stroll at City Hall:

"The best part is the community will come through the gingerbread stroll, and they get to cast their vote as to which gingerbread house is their favorite, so that business will get an award plaque and bragging rights for the remainder of the year that they were the winning gingerbread house."

Meyers says the stroll is nice, so people can see all the gingerbread houses without going to all the businesses individually, but they will be on display at the businesses after Santa Day is over.

If you can't make it to Santa Day, you can still have some fun by taking the gingerbread challenge in the gallery below and see how many Cold Spring businesses you can name by their gingerbread house from a prior year.

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