The Park Avenue Hotel, Park Avenue and Thirty Fourth Street.

Hotels--New York (State)--New York.

Park Avenue (New York, N.Y.)

Horse-drawn vehicles--New York (State)--New York.

Buildings--New York (State)--New York.

John Kellum & Son.

Stewart, Alexander Turney, 1803-1876.

Exterior image of the Park Avenue Hotel decorated with patriotic bunting and a horse drawn carriage parked at the main entrance. Designed by John Kellum and built by Alexander T. Stewart, the Park Avenue Hotel was originally conceptualized as The Working Women's Hotel to provide housing for the influx of single, middle class women working in the city. The experiment did not pan out. Opening in April of 1878, the hotel was closed in May and re-opened in June as the Park Avenue Hotel.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

Robert Stewart, "The Hotels of New York," Munsey's Magazine in The New New York.

Undated

R. F. Turnbull

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Photographs

Park Avenue and 34th Street