Westminster Hotel, New York
Westminster Hotel, cor. of Irving Place and 16th St. New York Roberts & Palmer Prop
Westminster Hotel, cor. of Irving Place and 16th St. New York Roberts & Palmer Prop
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.
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Otsego Hotel opened in April 1904 on the previous site of the Hibbard House, which was built in 1865 and razed in 1901 after its manager, Henry Haden, died.
As Jackson began to grow as a railroad mecca in the mid-1860s, hotels began to spring up near the now historic depot the trains arrived to and departed from.
One of them - perhaps the most elegant of its time - was the Hibbard House, a four-story structure built in 1865 by Jackson businessman and stagecoach tycoon Daniel Hibbard at what's now the corner of E. Michigan Ave. and Francis Street.
The Morton House, a multi-storied hotel at the corner of Monroe and Ionia, has shops at street level, all with their awnings unfurled. At the corner the awning of White & White Druggists advertises that they are open all night, sell surgical instruments as well as soda water and Key West imported cigars. A large blackboard on the side of the building possibly lists items for sale. Horses and carriages line Ionia Ave. Most of the hotel's windows have individual awnings, and the top floor shows three wrought iron balconies with awnings over them.
The Southern Hotel was a historic hotel located at the corner of 4th Street and Walnut Street and stretching between 4th and 5th Streets in St. Louis, Missouri. The building was built at the location of the Old Southern Hotel which burned in 1877. This 1877 hotel fire and the loss of life that occurred here made this the worst hotel disaster in St. Louis history. The new Southern Hotel had white marble, extensive fresco work, a rotunda, and a wide promenade. The hotel was owned by Robert G.
The Galt House was, in the early 19th century, the residence of Dr. W.C. Galt. The house was located at the corner of Second and Main Street.
In 1834, the first instance of the Galt House as a hotel was established and in 1835 was opened by Col. Ariss Throckmorton as a 60-room hotel on the northeast corner of Second and Main streets in Louisville. During the nineteenth century, The Galt House was acclaimed as Louisville's best hotel. Many noted people stayed at the original Galt House, including Jefferson Davis, Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
The site of the Everett Building was initially part of the colonial farm owned by Dutch settler Cornelius Tiebout. Union Square was first laid out in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, expanded in 1832, and then made into a public park in 1839. The completion of the park led to the construction of mansions surrounding it, and the Everett House hotel, located on the north side of East 17th Street. was among one of several fashionable buildings completed around Union Square.
In the summer of 1870 a group of Hartford investors decided that Old Saybrook, would be an excellent location for developing a summer resort for wealthy Hartford residents. They named their company the New Saybrook Company. The centerpiece of their resort would be the grand Fenwick Hall hotel. 318 lots surrounding the hotel were offered for sale.
The luxurious five-story Reed hotel attracted guests from all over the United States, including Buffalo Bill Cody. It sat right in the middle of Erie's commercial district, on the corner of North Park Row and French Street. Check out this description of the Reed House:
The Arlington Hotel was a hotel in Washington, D.C. which stood from 1868 to 1912.
The origins of hospitality on the present site of the Radisson Plaza Hotel date to August 1850 when construction of an imposing four-story brick structure began. Built by Frank Dennison and initially known simply as Dennison’s brick block, the new building occupied one hundred feet of frontage along Main Street, today’s Michigan Avenue. The Kalamazoo Gazette described the architecture and facilities in grand terms, noting a large archway which defined the main entrance. From this entry, a broad hall extended through the building creating space for two stores.
Currently Rubin Hall, an undergraduate residence for New York University students.
When wealthy New Yorkers returned from their summer homes following the summer season of 1876, they found that the new Grosvenor Hotel had opened. Sitting in the most fashionable section of the city, on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 10th Street, the hotel consumed two building lots—Nos. 35 and 37 Fifth Avenue. The lack of protest from neighbors was no doubt due to its restrained architecture and high-class clientele.
The Hotel Wolcott at 4 West 31st Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States was bu
Franz-Josefs-Kai around 1876. In the central background the Hotel Metropol on Morzinplatz, which became the largest regional Gestapo centre of the Third Reich from 1938 to 1945.
The hotel was built for the Vienna World Exhibition and was designed by Carl Schumann and Ludwig Tischler. The four-story building was richly decorated with Corinthian columns, caryatids and atlases. The inner court was glassed over and had a richly decorated dining hall.
Grand Hotel's front porch is the longest in the world at some 660 feet in length, overlooking a vast Tea Garden "Grand Hotel MI From Lake" by Dehk - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Hotel_MI_From_Lake.jpg#/m…
Possible location, Via Ugo Bassi, 32
Until 1944, stood on the site of the Malraux Museum a magnificent palace of international renown. The first hotel was named after a pleasure establishment run by the Neapolitan Garchi glacier. The Casino-Hotel Frascati was built in wood and inaugurated in 1839.
In Paris they had stayed at the Grand Hôtel du Louvre, a “huge, palatial edifice” of seven hundred rooms on the Rue de Rivoli between the Louvre and the Palais Royal (Bædeker 1872, 4).
SLC to Jane Lampton Clemens and Family, 12 July 1867, Marseille, France (UCCL 00140), n. 1.
The Hôtel Louvre et Paix (a.k.a. Hôtel de la Marine) is a historic building in Marseille, France. Dedicated in 1863 as a luxury hotel, it was used by the Kriegsmarine during World War II. It now houses city administration offices and a C&A store.