View south down Fifth Avenue from intersection with 34th Street. Northwest corner (foreground): residence of Caroline Astor at 350 Fifth Ave. Future site of the Astoria Hotel erected in 1897. Southwest corner (background): Waldorf Hotel; built...
Stewart's Hotel for Working Women (New York, N.Y.)
Illustration of street scene in front of the Stewart's Hotel for Working Women. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working...
Stewart's Hotel for Working Women (New York, N.Y.)
Illustration of main entrance to the Women's Hotel. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working women into the city. It was...
The Claremont Hotel [Claremont Inn] on Riverside Drive in New York City, on a moonlit evening with stars. The hotel is decorated with bunting in the colors of the American flag, as if for a holiday. Grant's Tomb, situated nearby, is visible to...
Stewart's Hotel for Working Women (New York, N.Y.)
Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working women into the city. It was soon reopened as a regular hotel in 1878 and renamed...
Stewart's Hotel for Working Women (New York, N.Y.)
Illustration of court of Women's Hotel. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working women into the city. It was soon reopened...
Illustration of the reception room of the Women's Hotel where residents would meet male visitors. The Hotel re-opened as a regular hotel and re-named to the Park Avenue Hotel two months after the Stewart's Hotel for Working Women opened.
Illustration of one of the bedrooms in the Women's Hotel. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working women into the city. It...
Illustration of the Grand Ballroom of the Women's Hotel. Stewart's Hotel for Working Women was commissioned by the wealthy merchant, A.T. Stewart. The hotel opened in 1877 to provide safe housing for the influx of working women into the city. It...
Color postcard of the Hotel Governor Clinton, "New York's newest and finest. 1200 rooms, all outside; 1200 baths; 5 restaurants; bar and cocktail lounge; all air-conditioned. Rates from $3.30. Robert J. Glenn, manager." The hotel was built in 1929....
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...
February 19, 1916.
Mr. Edwin Markham,
92 Waters Avenue,
West New Brighton,
Staten Island, New York.
My dear Markham:-
I have been working hard trying to get the Christian Socialist Fellowship movement going and have had two or three talks with Dr....
A scenic view of Cranston's Hotel (upper right corner) at West Point on Hudson. Cranston's, among the most prominent nineteenth-century resorts in America, was later converted to a school for girls (Ladycliff Academy) in September, 1900, under the...
