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.
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At the same site as the first hotel, Francis Cornwall Sherman built a new structure, breaking ground on May 1, 1860, and opening the new structure to guests on July 1, 1861.[3] The structure was designed by William W.
Southern Hotel St. Louis, Missouri
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.
This photo from Detroit Publishing Company shows Duluth’s Spalding Hotel at 428 W. Superior St. The elegant 200-room hotel opened on June 6, 1889 and was demolished on Sept. 25, 1963.
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St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans
A larger hotel [the second building] was rebuilt at a cost of $800,000. Barker retained very little interest in the hotel, and took no part in the rebuilding. The second hotel opened in January 1853, during a time of political strife between 1851 and 1861, but became a highly successful venture. A British visitor of 1858 noted of the building, with accommodations for 1,000: "This hotel is a monster."
In 1859 Broadway near Madison Square saw the opening of two magnificent new hotels. Amos R. Eno opened his Fifth Avenue Hotel, which engulfed the block front from 23rd Street to 24th, on August 23, 1859. But his was not the first. By January that year another white marble had opened, the St. James.
The Stillman on the north side of Euclid avenue just beyond Erie succeeded the Angier house as the exclusive hotel of the city. It was built by the Stillman Witt estate and opened June 2, 1884. Its imposing building was placed well back from the street on a spacious lawn in keeping with its stately surroundings. On April 12, 1885, fire destroyed its upper floors. In 1901-2 it was torn down at behest of the irresistible commercial invasion of the avenue. It had been the scene of many brilliant social functions.
The Tepfer House, Keokuk.—On our way to Athens last Sunday, we were induced to stop over night at the Tepfer House, on the corner of Third and Johnson streets. Mr. J. H. Tepfer, formerly of the "Deming,” is the gentlemanly proprietor. This is probably the largest and finest hotel building on the river above St. Louis. It occupies over a half block, and is five tall stories high. It is fitted up with all the modern improvements, and furnished on a grand and magnificient scale, which makes it rank among the foremost hotels in the country.
The first hotel on the site was the Continental Hotel, built from 1857 to 1860.[4] The first hotel on the site was the Continental Hotel, built from 1857 to 1860.[4] The 700-room, six-story hotel was designed in the Italianate style by architect John McArthur Jr., who also designed the Philadelphia City Hall.[5] The luxurious hotel boasted one of the first elevators in the country, and a grand stairway made from polished Italian marble. Its main entrance was redesigned by noted Philadelphia architect Frank Furness in 1876.
The 1907 structure replaced some brownstone residences and the once-fashionable Hotel Brunswick, a series of three connected buildings remodeled by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1870-71.
The Tifft House, once among the most luxurious hotels in Buffalo, located on the east side of Main Street between Mohawk Street and Lafayette Square from 1865 until its demolition in 1903 to make way for the new home of the William Hengerer Company department store. A clue to the date of the photograph is found in the advertisement for Geneva Mineral Water on the awning at far left, which was bottled beginning in 1894. The Lafayette Court Building occupies the site today.
Volcano House is the name of a series of historic hotels built at the edge of Kīlauea, within the grounds of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on the Island of Hawai'i. The original 1877 building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now houses the Volcano Art Center. The hotel in use today was built in 1941 and expanded in 1961.
Opened in 1884, the West Hotel was Minneapolis's first grand hotel. It had 407 luxuriously furnished rooms, 140 baths, and featured an immense and opulent lobby which was claimed to be the largest in the nation. These elements combined to make what was considered for a time to be the most luxurious hotel west of Chicago. The West was designed by LeRoy Buffington and built on land that was once owned by the first resident of Minneapolis, John H. Stevens. Buffington created the West in the Queen Anne style that was quite popular in the last decades of the 19th century.
Westminster Hotel, cor. of Irving Place and 16th St. New York Roberts & Palmer Prop
White Hart Hotel, Salisbury, England
The current hotel claims to be the location of the hotel visited by Twain in 1873. This runs counter to the history of the A History of the White Hart, compiled by Richard Waldram in 2013.
The current hotel was founded by Henry Willard, a former Chief Steward on The Steamer "Niagara" on the Hudson River, personally suggested by “Ogle” Tayloe’s second wife, Miss Phoebe Warren, formerly of Troy, New York, in 1847; when he leased the six buildings, combined them into a single structure, and enlarged it into a four-story hotel he renamed Willard's Hotel.[2][8]
The Windsor Hotel was located at 575 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of East 47th Street) in Manhattan, New York.
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
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