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The Manhattan Hotel 

architect

Henry J Hardenbergh

location

Madison and 42nd 

date

1897

style

Historicist Skyscrapers Second Empire Baroque  French Chateau

construction

250 feet tall and 16-1/2 stories

type

Hotel

 

 

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notes

It was ripped down in the early sixties for another product of the Jacobs & Kahn Crap Factory, a building that now goes by the evocative name of 330 Madison.
 
  Belmont Hotel  120 Park Avenue

The Belmont was the tallest hotel in the world when completed. (94.0 m)

It was demolished just 31 years after it was built.

Started: 1904
Finished: 1908
Destroyed: 1939
Floor Count: 22

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