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McKim, Mead and White |
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767 5th Avenue at East 58th Street, NE Corner to East 59th Street |
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1927, demolished 1964 |
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Art Deco |
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33 floors, 128 meters |
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Hotel |
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notes |
The Savoy
Plaza Hotel dominated the New York midtown gateway to Central Park for about
two decades before these two skyscraper hotels were built, the Pierre and
the Sherry-Netherland hotels, two blocks and two years apart, quickly became
two of the most recognized profiles in the world until the incursion several
decades later of the mammoth General Motors Building. The General Motors Building replaced the very elegant, formal, twin-chimneyed Savoy Plaza Hotel that had been designed by McKim, Mead & White directly across Fifth Avenue from the Plaza Hotel. The Savoy Plaza was, in fact, the best looking of this group of super luxury hotels though it was far shorter and bulkier than the Pierre and Sherry Netherland. -------------------------- SAVOY PLAZA. Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. i,000 rooms. $7.00. The somewhat sprightlier relative of the Plaza across the way, in a newer building. Distinguished clientele, but where the Plaza would feature a concert by a singer from the Metropolitan at eleven in the morning in the Ball Room, the Savoy Plaza would feature songs by someone like Dwight Fiske at midnight in the Bar. ------------------ |
