View of Park Avenue from the Park Avenue Hotel, showing the Grand Central Railroad Station at the north end.

Park Avenue (New York, N.Y.)

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

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

Grand Central Station (New York, N.Y.)

Midtown Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--History--19th century.

The view from the Park Avenue Hotel shows the rooftops of the buildings across the street as well as part of Park Avenue stretching up to Grand Central Railroad Station at the north end. Originally built as the Grand Central Depot, this Grand Central was remodeled, expanded and renamed. Nonetheless, plans were made to tear down the station and build one that could handle electric locomotives--the current Grand Central Terminal. Horses and carts can be seen going up and down the avenue.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

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

New York, Compliments of Park Avenue Hotel (New York: The Hotel, n.d.)

ca. 1900

Unknown

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

Drawings

Fourth Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Streets

The Court of the Park Avenue Hotel.

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

Park Avenue (New York, N.Y.)

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.

Interior decoration--New York (State)--New York.

A drawing of a waiter at the Hotel Imperior’s garden court yard preparing to serve guests.

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, 74.

Undated

Unknown

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

Prints

Park Avenue and 34th Street

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