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| New York
Architecture Images- Gone / Demolished / Destroyed Park Avenue Hotel |
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architect |
John Kellum |
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location |
Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue) between 32nd and 33rd Streets |
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1878-1927 |
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Hotel |
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Brick with decorative cast-iron cladding. |
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Second Empire Baroque French Chateau |
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In 1877, wealthy merchant A.T. Stewart commissioned the handsome Stewart's Hotel for Working Women to provide safe housing for the influx of single working women into New York City. That certainly didn't last long: It was opened in April 1878, closed in May and reopened in June as the Park Avenue Hotel. In the 1870's, John Kellum designed the cast-iron façade of the Park Avenue Hotel on 33rd Street. It opened in 1878 but Mr. Silver noted that "it became a luxury hotel when strict house rules made the first scheme a failure," adding that it was demolished in 1927. |
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| Above is a view from the Park Avenue Hotel rooftop, looking up Park Avenue, with horses and carts ambling the avenue. At the north end is Grand Central Depot, which was torn down for the current Grand Central Terminal in order to handle the onset of electric locomotives. | |
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