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List Of Former Hotels In Manhattan
This is a list of former hotels in Manhattan, New York City. Former hotels in Manhattan * 995 Fifth Avenue * The Ansonia * Astor House * Barbizon-Plaza Hotel * City Hotel * Dauphin Hotel * Drake Hotel * Endicott Hotel * Fifth Avenue Hotel * George Washington Hotel * Grand Central Hotel * Grand Hotel * Hotel Astor * Hotel Kenmore Hall * Hotel McAlpin * Hotel Metropole * Hotel Pierrepont * Hotel St. Moritz * Hotel Theresa * Metropolitan Hotel * Mayfair Regent Hotel (New York City) * New York Biltmore Hotel * Pabst Hotel * Hotel Pennsylvania * The Roosevelt Hotel * Savoy-Plaza Hotel * Sinclair House * Stanhope Hotel 995 Fifth Avenue * Marriott World Trade Center * Universal Hotel * Weylin Hotel * Waldorf-Astoria * Windsor Hotel See also {{portal, Hotels, New York City, Lists * List of hotels in New York City * Lists of hotels – an index of hotel list articles on Wikipedia Manhattan Former Hotels In M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ansonia may refer to: Places * Ansonia, Ontario, Canada * Ansonia, Connecticut, U.S. ** Ansonia High School (Connecticut) ** Ansonia station * Ansonia, Ohio, U.S. ** Ansonia High School (Ohio) * Ansonia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Other uses * ''Ansonia'' (frog), a genus of poisonous toads * The Ansonia, a luxury residence on the Upper West Side of Manhattan * Ansonia Clock Company Ansonia Clocks were made by a clock manufacturing business which started in Ansonia, Connecticut, in 1851 and which moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1878. History In 1838, brass movements had mainly replaced wooden and cast iron movements in mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel McAlpin
Herald Towers, formerly the Hotel McAlpin, is a residential condominium building on Herald Square, along Broadway between 33rd and 34th Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Constructed from 1910 to 1912 by the Greeley Square Hotel Company, it operated as a short-term hotel until 1976. The building was designed by Frank Mills Andrews in the Italian Renaissance style and was the largest hotel in the world at the time of its completion, with 1,500 guestrooms. The hotel was expanded in 1917, when Warren and Wetmore designed an annex with 200 rooms. The building is 25 stories high, with a roof above the curb, as well as four basement levels. It is divided into three wings facing Broadway and Sixth Avenue and is largely clad in brick, limestone, and terracotta. The hotel building contains of structural steel as well as an extensive system of mechanical equipment. Originally, the hotel included a triple-height lobby clad in marble and stone, as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriott World Trade Center
The Marriott World Trade Center was a 22-story, 825-room hotel at 3 World Trade Center within the World Trade Center complex in Manhattan, New York City. It opened in April 1981 as the Vista International Hotel and was the first major hotel to open in Lower Manhattan south of Canal Street since 1836. It was also known as World Trade Center 3 (WTC 3 or 3 WTC), the World Trade Center Hotel, the Vista Hotel, and the Marriott Hotel throughout its history. The hotel was damaged in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It was destroyed beyond repair as a result of the September 11 attacks, due to structural damage caused by the collapse of the Twin Towers, specifically the South Tower. The hotel was not replaced as part of the new World Trade Center complex, although its address was reused for a tower at 175 Greenwich Street. Description The building was a 22-story steel-framed structure with 825 rooms and six basement levels (labeled B1 through B6). The hotel was connected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanhope Hotel
995 Fifth Avenue is a 16-story co-op apartment building at 995 Fifth Avenue and East 81st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, across Fifth Avenue from Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue building. It was constructed in 1926 as The Stanhope Apartment Hotel and designed by Rosario Candela. The building was converted to a residential co-op with 26 units in 2005 and renamed The Stanhope. It has since been renamed simply 995 Fifth Avenue. History The Stanhope Apartment Hotel opened in 1927 under the ownership of the 955 Fifth Avenue Corporation. It shortly passed into the ownership of Benjamin Winter, Inc. in 1928, followed by joint ownership among four banks, including the Bank of United States, in 1932, after Winter's default. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinclair House (Manhattan Hotel)
Sinclair House was a 19th-century hotel which stood at 754 Broadway and Eighth Street in Manhattan, New York City. It was demolished in 1908. History Part of what became the Sinclair House was constructed around 1787, on land purchased by Frederick Charles Hans and Baron Bruno Poelintz from John Jay, Isaac Roosevelt, and Alexander Hamilton.(4 April 1908)Sinclair House To Go ''The Sun'' It opened as a roadhouse in 1840, and was purchased by Robert Sinclair around 1855, and then known as the Sinclair House. It catered to downtown businessmen and commercial travelers, and was well-known to the booktrade. Amaziah L. Ashman was proprietor of Sinclair House from 1863 until his death in 1902. In the first part of that period, he was a partner with James Morton in the venture, and later became sole owner.(22 October 1902)A.L. Ashman Seriously Ill ''The New York Times'' Ashman was a native of Livingston County, New York and the director of Astor Place Bank.(25 October 1902)Death o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savoy-Plaza Hotel
The Savoy-Plaza Hotel was a 33-story hotel overlooking Central Park at Fifth Avenue and East 59th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It opened in 1927 and was demolished in 1965. History Original Savoy Hotel The original Savoy Hotel at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street opened in June 1892, more or less in answer to the neighboring Plaza Hotel opened in 1890. The original 12-story Savoy was designed by architect Ralph S. Townsend, for landowners including New York Supreme Court Justice P. Henry Dugro. The old Savoy continued to compete with the Plaza in lavish surroundings and expansions into the 1920s. Its furnishings were liquidated in 1925. Savoy-Plaza Hotel Harry S. Black, owner of the Plaza, bought the Savoy Hotel, consolidated the block, and demolished it to commission a newer companion to the older establishment from the architects of the Plaza. The 33-story, skyscraper Savoy-Plaza Hotel was designed by McKim, Mead & White, built at a cost of $30 million, and open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Roosevelt Hotel (Manhattan)
The Roosevelt Hotel was a hotel at 45 East 45th Street (between Madison Avenue and Vanderbilt Avenue) in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Named in honor of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, the hotel was developed by the New York Central Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and operated from 1924 to 2020. The 19-story structure was designed by George B. Post & Son with an Italian Renaissance Revival-style facade, as well as interiors that resembled historical American buildings. The Roosevelt was one of several large hotels developed around Grand Central Terminal as part of Terminal City. The hotel building contains setbacks to comply with the 1916 Zoning Resolution, as well as light courts above the third story on Madison Avenue. The hotel was mostly constructed above Grand Central Terminal's railroad tracks, so different sets of columns were used for the lower and upper stories. The ground level largely contained stores, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Pennsylvania
The Hotel Pennsylvania was a historic hotel at 401 Seventh Avenue (15 Penn Plaza) in Manhattan, across the street from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden in New York City. Opened in 1919, it was once the largest hotel in the world. It remained the fourth largest in New York City when it closed permanently on April 1, 2020. After years of unsuccessful preservation battles, it is being demolished and replaced by 15 Penn Plaza, a 68-story tower. History In the late 19th century, the site around the Hotel Pennsylvania was mostly residential, with three- and four-story row houses and four- and five-story tenements. The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) had completed the original Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, in 1910. In construction with the railroad station's opening, the PRR had acquired all lots on the eastern side of Seventh Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets, directly east of the station, though the railroad did not initially develop the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pabst Hotel
Pabst is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adolf Pabst (1899–1990), American mineralogist and geologist *Daniel Pabst (1826–1910), American furniture maker *Frederick Pabst (1836–1904), American brewer * Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885–1967), Austrian film director *Guido Frederico João Pabst (1914-1980), Brazilian botanist *Hermann Pabst (1842–1870), German historian *Johann Heinrich Pabst (1785–1838), German-Austrian physician, philosopher and lay theologian * Pavel Pabst (1854–1897), Prussian pianist and composer *Thomas Pabst (born 1966), founder of Tom's Hardware, a computer hardware publication * Waldemar Pabst (1880–1970), German soldier and right-wing political activist See also *Pabst Brewing Company, brewing company once owned by Frederick Pabst ** Pabst Blue Ribbon, a beer brand **Pabst Brewery Complex, a facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that was closed in 1997 *Pabst Mansion, the Milwaukee home to Captain Frederick Pabst *Pabst Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Biltmore Hotel
The New York Biltmore Hotel was a luxury hotel at 335 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The hotel was developed by the New York Central Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and operated from 1913 to 1981. It was one of several large hotels developed around Grand Central Terminal as part of Terminal City. The Biltmore was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by Warren and Wetmore, one of the firms involved in designing Grand Central. Although the hotel's steel frame still exists, the hotel itself was almost entirely demolished and replaced by an office building in the early 1980s. The hotel building was variously cited as having between 23 and 26 stories. The hotel had a facade of granite, limestone, brick, and terracotta. Most of its floorplan was U-shaped, with a light court facing west toward Madison Avenue. In the basement was a reception room that led directly from Grand Central Terminal. The public dining rooms, includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Hotel (New York City)
The Metropolitan Hotel in Manhattan, New York City, opened September 1, 1852, and was demolished in 1895. It was built at a time of a "hotel boom" in response to the opening of the New York Crystal Palace exhibition of 1853. It occupied a three-hundred-foot brownstone-faced frontage of four floors above fashionable shopfronts occupying 300 feet on Broadway and 200 feet on Prince Street. The site, formerly that of Niblo's Garden, was owned by Stephen Van Rensselaer, and the architects were Joseph Trench and John Butler Snook, who designed the hotel in the "grand commercialized style reminiscent of Roman palazzos," with many of its furnishings imported from Europe, including the largest plate-glass mirrors in the United States: the interior decorations and furnishings were claimed in 1866 to have cost $200,000. It could shelter six hundred guests, in steam-heated rooms and in "family apartments" with private drawing rooms. The Metropolitan, operated on the "American plan" tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotel Theresa
The Hotel Theresa is located at 2082-96 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard between West 124th and 125th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. In the mid-20th century, it was a vibrant center of African American life in the area and the city. The 13-story hotel was built in 1912–13 by German-born stockbroker Gustavus Sidenberg (1843–1915), whose wife the hotel is named after,Aberjhani. "Hotel Theresa" in Aberjhani and West, Sandra L. (eds.''Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance'' Facts On File, 2003. p. 158 and was designed by the firm of George & Edward Blum, who specialized in designing apartment buildings. The hotel, which was known in its heyday as "the Waldorf of Harlem", exemplifies the Blums' inventive use of terracotta for ornamentation, and has been called "one of the most visually striking structures in northern Manhattan". The building, now an office building known as Theresa Towers, was designated a New York City landmark in 1993 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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