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

Title:

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

Format:

Photographs

Publisher:

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

Date:

Undated

Street Address:

Park Avenue and 34th Street

Photographer/Artist:

R. F. Turnbull

Description:

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.

Subjects:

• 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.

Rights:

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

Collection:

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

Contributing Institution:

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

Tags:

Alexander Turney Stewart, Buildings, Horse-drawn vehicles, Hotels, John Kellum & Son, Park Avenue