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New York
Architecture Images- Midtown St.Regis-Sheraton Hotel |
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Trowbridge & Livingston , Sloan & Robertson (expansion) |
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2 E55 at Fifth Ave. |
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1904; 1927 (expansion) |
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Second Empire Baroque |
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Developer: Col. John Jacob Astor |
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Hotel |
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Some commentary by various authors; Jerry E. Patterson, "Fifth Avenue, The Best Address," (Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1998). "The public rooms in the St. Regis were relatively small, a subtle indication that the management did not want the crowds that milled in Peacock Alley at the Waldorf-Astoria or in the vast lobby of the Astor in Times Square. On the Fifth Avenue side was an outdoor terrace were one could have refreshments, lost when Fifth Avenue was widened...During the nightclub years of the 1930's the St. Regis had many clubs, attracting for the most part a rather conservative and very well-heeled crowd. Joseph Urban[n], the flamboyant architect, designed the Seaglades nightclub, where Vincent Lopez's orchesta played. During the summer they played for dancing in the Japanese-style roof garden of the hotel," Patterson wrote, adding that the hotel was named after St. Regis Lake in the Adirondacks, a popular resort at the time. |
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