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  • Grande Hotel d'' Europe, Venice, Italy

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 21:03
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    Twain remarks that the gondola he rode in belonged to the Grand Hotel d' Europe, so I assume that is where he stayed while in Venice. I did not find a listing for this hotel on Google but I did find the Hotel Londra Palace of Venice operating in 1853.

  • Grosvenor Hotel

    Submitted by scott on Mon, 07/25/2022 - 18:46
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    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.

  • Wolcott Hotel

    Submitted by scott on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 11:16
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    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 built between 1902 and 1904 by developer William C.

  • Hotel Metropole, Vienna

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 02/13/2022 - 11:14
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    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.

  • Riffelhaus

    Submitted by scott on Mon, 10/25/2021 - 02:29
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  • Hotel Brun, Bologna

    Submitted by scott on Mon, 10/25/2021 - 01:38
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    Possible location, Via Ugo Bassi, 32

  • Eden Hotel, Pisa, Italy

    Submitted by scott on Mon, 10/25/2021 - 01:38
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  • Hotel Royal on Unter den Linden.

    Submitted by scott on Mon, 10/25/2021 - 01:37
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    Unter den Linden (German: "under the linden trees") is a boulevard in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany.

  • Hotel Frascati, Le Havre

    Submitted by scott on Mon, 10/25/2021 - 01:16
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    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.

  • Grand Hotel Terminus, Paris, France

    Submitted by scott on Mon, 10/25/2021 - 01:15
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  • Grand Hotel du Louvre on the Rue de Rivoli

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 23:48
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    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.

  • Grand Hôtel du Louvre et de la Paix

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 23:36
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    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.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_Louvre_et_Paix

  • Watson's Hotel, Bombay

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 23:16
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  • Hotel Schweizerhof Lucerne

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 22:48
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    The Hotel Schweizerhof Lucerne is a five-star hotel in Lucerne . It stands near the shore of Lake Lucerne at the Schweizerhofquai . The hotel was built in 1845, has been steadily expanding over the years and has been owned by the Hauser family since 1861. It offers 101 rooms and suites, three restaurants, a bar, several function rooms and a wellness area. The hotel is one of the few in Switzerland that is a cultural asset of national importance and is a listed building. [2] The original architecture has remained largely preserved to this day.

  • Schloss Hotel, Heidelberg, Germany

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 22:18
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    The castle hotel in Heidelberg was from 1873 to 1964 intermittently a hotel . In a location-dominant location above the Hortus Palatinus of the Heidelberg Castle , it was once one of the best houses on the square, which accommodated numerous prominent guests. Even Empress Sissi , Richard Wagner and Mark Twain were guests here. After the end of the hotel business, the building served until 2000 as an international study center of the University of Heidelberg . Since 2009, a residential complex of apartment complexes has been built on the site of the building.

  • Shepheard's Hotel

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 22:12
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    Shepheard's Hotel was the leading hotel in Cairo and one of the most celebrated hotels in the world from the middle of the 19th century until it was burned down in 1952 in the Cairo Fire. Five years after the original one was destroyed, a new hotel was built nearby and named the Shepheard Hotel.

  • Grand Hotel Mackinac Island, MI

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 14:15
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    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…

  • Grand Hotel du Louvre

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 20:59
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  • Novum Hotel Kronprinz

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 20:44
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    From Notebooks and Journals Vol II:
    The Kronprinz of Germany knows how to keep hotel, anyway.

    The Crown Prince the best hotel I know.

    Chickens the size of sparrows - perfect.
    ["Hamburg spring chickens" which he found "a shade superior to anything strictly earthly" adding that he could not "think of anything that could taste so good, unless it might be a cherubim."]

    Parlor stove & mantel combined -- peat. Can't get it very warm.

  • Manitoba Hotel

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 20:11
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    “The Manitoba was one of Winnipeg’s show buildings,” according to a February 9, 1899, editorial in the Telegram. “Its imposing dimensions testified to the importance of the prairie capital, as well as the enterprise of the corporation which erected it; and the comfort and luxury which it afforded to the travelling public, predisposed strangers favourably towards the city and made Winnipeg a welcome stopping-off place in the itinerary of tourists.”

  • Biddle House, Detroit, MI

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 20:11
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    Young Men s Hall in the Biddle House Block was first used November 21 1861 It seated 1 500 and for many years was a popular place of resort Since 1875 it has been but little used for lectures

    The history of detroit and michigan or the metropolis illustrated, Silas Farmer 1889

    The Biddle House was once Detroit's most luxurious hotel, but, like much of the city, its lasting legacy is tied to the automobile.

  • Hotel Iroquois

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 19:17
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  • Great Northern Hotel, Chicago

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 17:22
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  • Murray Hill Hotel, NY

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 17:20
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    Murray Hill Hotel was a hotel situated at 112 Park Avenue in Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1884, with 600 rooms and two courtyards, it was demolished in 1947. It was part of the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels chain.

  • Glenham Hotel, NY

    Submitted by scott on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 17:20
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    Possible location.

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