The Grand Hotel is located at 1232–1238

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at the corner of West 31st Street in the

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neighborhood of

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History

It was built in 1868 and was designed by

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in the

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. Englebert designed the hotel for Elias S. Higgins, a prosperous carpet manufacturer and merchant. At the time the Grand Hotel was built, the area of Broadway between Madison Square and Herald Square was the premier entertainment district in the city, teeming with theatres, restaurants and hotels. The sleazier establishments on the side streets soon gave the district a new name, the " Tenderloin". When the theatre district moved uptown again, the area became part of the Garment District, and the Grand Hotel became a cut-rate residential hotel.

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is known to have stayed at the hotel at least twice during 1882. Cooper, Joh
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in 1979, and was added to the

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in 1983.

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