St. Nicholas Hotel is a luxury hotel with 600 rooms, mid-nineteenth century in New York City. Opened on January 6, 1853, and by the end of the year has grown to 1,000 rooms. The St. Ã, Nicholas raised the bar for a new standard of luxury appointments for luxury hotels. This is the first building in New York City costing more than $ 1 Ã, million. The hotel is said to have put an end to the excellence of Astor House in a New York hostelry.
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Description
The hotel is at 507-527 Broadway. The main master plan and design of the white marble-faÃÆ'§ade hotel is prepared by the owner D. Ã, H. Haight and the famous businessman, Mr. Ã, Treadwell. The architects involved are J. B. Snook and Griffith Thomas. The hotel building is located 275 feet on Broadway, 200 feet on Spring Street, and 275 feet on Mercer Street. Ongoing at the time the hotel is opened is an extension completed at the end of the year. The expanded hotel has 1,000 guest rooms. The hotel building then takes a full city block between Spring Street and Broome Street. This six-storey hotel is Italian architecture with modified elements of Corinth. The entrance is between four grooved white marble columns.
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Interior
The hotel charges $ 1,200,000 to build and accommodate one thousand guests each week. $ 700,000 was spent to equip the hotel completely. It has several dining rooms; on the second floor is the main dining room that can accommodate 400 guests. Male hair care salon illustrated by gold-domed vaulted skylights serves about a dozen guests at a time.
The main lobby has a white oak staircase leading up to the top floor. The first landing was illuminated by a $ 1,100 lamp, one of the many expensive and elaborate lighting fixtures found throughout the hotel. On the wall above this landing is a painting of the Dutch myth prizes prizes Sinterklaas (aka St. Ã, Nicholas) placing a gift into Christmas stockings.
The hotel's public spaces are lined with mahogany and walnut and illuminated with gas lamps. There is plenty of use of gold paint throughout the hotel. The hotel has a window curtain that costs $ 700 each and a golden embroidery curtain for $ 1,000 per pair. The bathroom features an engraved walnut bathtub and there are plenty of mirrors everywhere. The common hallways on all floors are heated with hot steam, and the rooms on the sleeping floors each have a stove. The beds have springs. The hotel has a piano for $ 1,500 and a bridal suite furnished with the best damask. The hotel develops something that has a reputation as a "swift crowd", so a deal to get a job there is considered a recognition of the loss of sanctity - unless there happens to be a bride in the bridal suite.
On the second floor "rosewood rosewood rosewood carved decoration" produced by Boston's T. Ã, Gilbert & amp; Co presents the mother of a pearl key, rather than a regular ivory. "The hotel's clever call system" connects guest rooms to the main office; bells can be sounded remotely using electric current.
Significant events
The night of November 25, 1864, the hotel was involved in a terrorist attack by a Confederate Army called Manhattan, that is, a Confederate saboteur who thought they were going to burn New York City. The St. Ã, Nicholas is one of over a dozen of the finest New York hotels filled with them in order to get them on fire. Other hotels include the Astor House and the Metropolitan Hotel. The effort was poorly understood and executed. Fires mostly extinguish themselves due to lack of oxygen; they are placed in a locked room, the technology is not well developed, and the terrorists are determined to escape.
Demise
In the later part of the nineteenth century, hotels have declined in popularity, most New York City tourists prefer to live in more distant cities. Beginning in the mid-1870s, certain parts of the hotel building were converted into other uses. The designed Loubat Snook shop (No. 503-5ll) took the southern wing in 1878. The center (No. Ã, 513-519) became Samuel Warner's shop and warehouse in 1884. The hotel is permanently closed later. A piece of the original building was saved when the hotel was destroyed in the twentieth century. This is now the 521 and 523 Broadway luxury condos. Top stories from No. Ã, 521 has most of their original decorations in windows.
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