Building type
Grand hotels, apartment hotels, and hospitality buildings that present luxury and urban performance as architecture.
Hotel landmarks carry a special kind of theatricality. They are often public-facing, image-conscious buildings that compress ideas about arrival, status, tourism, and neighborhood change into a single facade.
23 building histories
Hotel · 1902
61 West 44th Street, New York, NY
he Algonquin Hotel, which opened its doors in 1902, has played host to generations of famous men and women from the literary and theatrical worlds. Most often associated with the legendary Round Table — the group of...
Read the storyHotel · 1902-04
17 West 32nd Street, New York, NY
The Aberdeen Hotel was built in 1902-04 as an apartment hotel to the designs of architect Harry B. Mulliken for the Old Colony Company, a real estate development firm. At that time, the Herald Square area was a center...
Read the storyHotel · 1902-05
700 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The imposing neo-Italian Renaissance Gotham Hotel (now the Peninsula Hotel) is one of the few structures on Fifth Avenue which recalls the golden age of luxury hotels and the prominent place they occupied in the...
Read the storyHotel · 1868
1238 Broadway, New York, NY
The Grand Hotel, an urbane marble structure crowned with a handsome mansard roof, is a sophisticated example of the French Second Empire style. Built for Elias S. Higgins, an important manufacturer and vendor of...
Read the storyHotel · 1883
222 West 23rd Street, New York, NY
Reminiscent of the great "Spanish-Flats" which once stood on 59th Street at Central Park, this building was also designed by Hubert Pirsson & Co. It is one of the few remaining of the great Victorian Gothic apartment...
Read the storyHotel · 1903-05
34 East 32nd Street, New York, NY
The St. Louis Hotel, constructed in 1903-05, as part of the midtown hotel district was built at a time of great expansion and development in midtown Manhattan. Close to shopping and entertainment districts, this area...
Read the storyHotel · 1902-05
2693 Broadway, New York, NY
Prominently situated at the corner of West 103rd Street and Broadway, the Hotel Marseilles is a distinctive Beaux-Arts style apartment hotel constructed in 1902-05, at a time when this section of Broadway on the Upper...
Read the storyHotel · 1897-98
1260 Broadway, New York, NY
The Hotel Martinique, a major work of the prominent designer Henry J. Hardenbergh, was constructed in three phases, in 1897-98, 1901-03, and 190911. Developer William R. H. Martin, who had invested heavily in real...
Read the storyHotel · 1912-13
2096 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Blvd, New York, NY
The Hotel Theresa, built in 1912-13, was one of the major social centers of Harlem, serving from 1940 until its conversion into an office building in the late 1960s as one of the most important institutions for Harlem's...
Read the storyHotel · 1092-04
4 West 31 Street, New York, NY
The Beaux Arts style Hotel Wolcott is a distinctive early 20th-century hotel in midtown Manhattan, located close to numerous sites for entertainment, business and shopping as well as various transportation methods....
Read the storyHotel · 1897-98
150 Barrow Street, New York, NY
The Keller Hotel was constructed in 1897-98 to the Renaissance Revival style design of Julius Munckwitz. He was Supervising Architect and Superintendent of Parks in New York City and maintained an architectural practice...
Read the storyHotel · 1901-02
14 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Hotel Mansfield is a 12-story, red-brick and limestone Beaux-Arts style hotel located on the same prestigious Midtown block as the New York Yacht Club, the former Yale Club, the Harvard Club, the former Mechanics’...
Read the storyHotel · 1901-03
30 East 30th Street, New York, NY
The Renaissance Revival style Martha Washington Hotel was the first hotel built in New York to provide housing for professional women. Although increasing numbers of women were joining the work force, residential...
Read the storyHotel · 1927-28
245 West 46th Street, New York, NY
The Paramount Hotel was constructed in 1927-28 as part of an extensive building and expansion drive in the Times Square theater district during that period. One of a very few hotels designed by noted theater architect...
Read the storyHotel · 1959-61
573 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Admired for its unusual shape, color, and stainless steel sign, the Summit Hotel is an important work by Morris Lapidus. Begun in 1959, it was the first hotel built in Manhattan in three decades and the architect’s...
Read the storyHotel · 1899--1904
2119 Broadway, New York, NY
This apartment-hotel in the grand French Beaux Arts style occupies the entire blockfront on the west side of Broadway between 73rd and 74th Streets. It rises on its conspicuous site to a height of seventeen stories....
Read the storyHotel · 1893-94
123 West 44th Street, New York, NY
The Gerard, an exceptionally fine brick, limestone, and terra-cotta apartment hotel, designed in 1893 by George Keister, marks a transition in both American architectural taste and in the developmental history of the...
Read the storyHotel · 1901-03
2179 Broadway, New York, NY
The Hotel Belleclaire, one of a number of luxury apartment hotels constructed on the Upper West Side at the turn of the century, was the first major commission awarded to Emery Roth, at the time a struggling young...
Read the storyHotel · 1906
1470 Broadway, New York, NY
The Knickerbocker Hotel is one of the very few grand hotels in the Beaux-Arts style surviving in the Times Square area. Designed in 1901 by the firm of Marvin & Davis with the well-known Bruce Price as consulting...
Read the storyHotel · 1905-07
5th Avenue & 59th Street, New York, NY
Henry J. Hardenbergh designed the Plaza Hotel, built from 1905 to 1907 at Fifth Avenue and Central Park South. Its white-brick and marble exterior rises to steep roofs and dormer windows inspired by French Renaissance...
Read the storyHotel · 1901-04
703 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The St. Regis Hotel is one of the most elegant and sophisticated Beaux-Arts style buildings in New York. Among the oldest of the early "skyscraper" hotels, it rises nineteen stories above the intersection of Fifth...
Read the storyHotel · 1888-90
1 West 30th Street, New York, NY
The Wilbraham, built in 1888-90 as a bachelor apartment hotel, was commissioned by prominent Scottish-American jeweler William Moir as a real estate investment. It was designed by the versatile New York architectural...
Read the storyHotel · 1929-31
301 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Schultze & Weaver designed the Park Avenue Waldorf-Astoria, which opened in 1931. Its paired towers rise above lower blocks facing Park and Lexington avenues. Pale limestone and matching brick give the exterior a...
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