Possible location, Via Ugo Bassi, 32
Hotel
The site of Twain's faux pax after dinner speech regarding Holmes, Emerson and Longfellow pretenders.
Sam remembered the hotel as a “plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel” in chapter 21 of A Tramp Abroad.
Bædeker mentions it only briefly as one of four first class hotels in Baden-Baden.
Geographic location unknown.
During its history of nearly four centuries, the Hôtel de l'Ecu de Genève, which no longer exists, had four different locations. Originally established on the side of the rue de la Rivière (the current rue de la Confédération), it was moved for the first time to the south front of the rue du Rhône, then occupied a house on the banks of the river and, finally, the plot neighbour, located near the Place du Rhône. The first mention of the hotel dates back to 1560. Ref: The monuments of art and history of the canton of Geneva. Volume I - Geneva on the water.
As early as the 12th century, an inn stood here, at what was then the meat and fish market. From the town hall to a guild hall to the Wirtshaus zur Waage (1807) – the history was eventful until the Hotel des Balances finally opened in 1836. Successful hoteliers such as Jean Haecky and Fritz Rindlisbacher celebrated hospitality and gourmet cuisine at the highest level here.
Noted in Bædeker as near Cassel's station (the mapped location).
In 1770 Mme Coutterand opened the first tourist hotel - l'Hotel d'Angleterre (the 'English Hotel') as English visitors outnumbered other nationals even though the journey took nine days. Since then the region has been inspirational to sporting enthusiasts, mountaineers, painters, writers such as Byron and Shelley, and those seeking inspiration or a change of pace in their lives.
Geographic Location unknown
Originally known as the Hotel Gerlach:
One of the residents that year [1895?] was Yugoslavian scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla. His laboratory was located at No. 33-35 South Fifth Avenue. Here he worked on his experiments in fluorescent lighting and wireless transmission of power. The lab and the hotel were approximately 30 blocks apart—the perfect distant for experimenting with wireless transmissions.
The Heilbronn Market Square with the Hotel Falkan.
Bædeker refers to this as Falke.
1836-1936: We haven’t been able to find any accurate historic data covering this 100 year period. Exactly what happened around the time of the First World War is uncertain. Maybe we will be able to fill in this gap one day
The history of “Hotel Restaurant Goldener Falke”
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.
Hotel Grand Bretagne, Bellagio
In 1860 the construction of the Hotel Grand Bretagne was in progress. The grand opening was in 1873. The luxury hotel had available 170 beds and was glamorously furnished. It offered every at hat time imaginable comfort to the guests. For example, there was a hydropower operated elevator. The technology for this lift was placed in a tower which is to date standing on the promenade.
The current building was built in 1897/1898 according to plans by Franz Kupka and Gustav Orglmeister in the Italian Renaissance style and was built on a much smaller footprint. The elegant rooms on the ground floor on the Kärntner Straße side were used as a restaurant. A special attraction was the Majolica Hall in the basement, in which the walls and the cross vaults resting on pillars were completely covered with painted and colored majolica panels. The construction costs were given as 1.2 million crowns .
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.
Hotel Normandie (New York City)
The Hotel Normandie was a luxury hotel located on Broadway at 38th Street in New York City. The 8-story building was put up by Ferdinand Earl, an heir of the Fisher family, opening in 1884. Amenities were advertised to include "Steam heat, speaking tubes, electric bells, burglar and fire alarms attached to all rooms". Rooms rates started at $2/day. Dinner was available for $1.25 additional; a quart bottle of Moët & Chandon champagne was $4.
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.
Hotel Victoria (New York City)
Hotel Victoria was built by Paran Stevens in 1877 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Occupying the entire block on 27th Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, it was the only hotel in the city with entrances on both the latter thoroughfares. The hotel was owned by the American Hotel Victoria Company. George W. Sweeney served as president and Angus Gordon was manager. In 1911, it was announced that the hotel had been redecorated, renovated, and refurnished at a cost of $250,000. Room options included without bath, with bath, and suites with rates ranging between $1.50 and $6.00 per day.
Demolished
The Langham, London, is one of the largest and best known traditional-style grand hotels in London, England. It is situated in the district of Marylebone on Langham Place and faces up Portland Place towards Regent's Park.
The Lick House was one of San Francisco's first luxury hotels, built by the piano maker/real estate investor James Lick, who was one of California's wealthiest men of his day. It was one of a cluster of luxury hotels erected in San Francisco during the early-to-mid-1860s, the others being the Russ House (completed in 1862), Occidental Hotel. and Cosmopolitan Hotel (1865). These hotels reflected the city's less rambunctious and more affluent character brought about by Gold Rush prosperity.
“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.”
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Hotel_(New_York_City)