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Architecture Images- Gone / Demolished / Destroyed ST. REGIS HOTEL |
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Trowbridge & Livingston |
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Beaux-Arts |
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1904. Still standing. |
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Historicist Skyscrapers Beaux-Arts |
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Steel frame, masonry cladding. |
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Hotel |
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ST. REGIS HOTEL This fine hotel was constructed by Trowbridge & Livingston in 1904 for John Jacob Astor. This eighteen story, lavishly Beaux-Arts styled hotel was cited as "offensive" in the 1913 report of the city's Heights of Building Commission because of its Fifth Avenue location. The St. Regis Hotel, NYC - Home of the Bloody Mary |
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The St. Regis was built by one of the wealthiest men in America, John
Jacob Astor IV, as a companion to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, of which he
owned half, at the time located twenty blocks south on Fifth Avenue. By
the first decade of the 20th Century that area had already begun to
decline in social importance as the area near Central Park gained favor.
Astor's great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor, had earlier built one of
the first modern hotels in the world, the Astor House, in Lower
Manhattan in 1836. Astor named the new hotel, at the suggestion of his niece, after Upper St. Regis Lake in the Adirondacks. The lake had been named for a French monk, John Francis Regis, known for his hospitality to travelers, so the name seemed appropriate. The 18-story French Beaux-Arts style hotel, the tallest in the city, was designed by architects Trowbridge & Livingston, with interiors by Arnold Constable. Construction began in 1901 and the hotel opened on September 4, 1904. |
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