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Hotel Netherland (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Luc Brocard said:
    Hotel New Netherland (later Hotel Netherland) was located at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, in what is now the Upper East Side Historic District. It contained the Sherry's restaurant from 1919 until its demolition in 1927.
  • Richard Norton said:
    www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19361341
  • swanq said:
    The ca. 1912 photo in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_New_Netherland shows a different building (or at least different facade) to the left of the hotel. The building was probably 785 Fifth Avenue. The New Britain Herald. December 06, 1924, Page 5, column 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014519/1924-12-06/ed-... reports that the hotel was sold by the estate of Baron William Waldorf Astor to Frederick Brown, who paid cash for the building which was assessed by the city at $2,100,000. That accounts for the fact that Bain had the photo filed with other pictures from that month. The Evening Star. May 10, 1925, Page 18, column 6, near top chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1925-05-10/ed-... reported that the hotel "closed its doors today. The building will be converted into stores and apartments." The Wikipedia article linked above indicates that the building was demolished in 1927 and replaced by a new hotel, the Sherry-Netherland, which was an apartment hotel. From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sherry-Netherland "Demolition began in the early winter of 1926, and construction began before the year was out, but the upper floors suffered a spectacular fire when wooden scaffolding caught alight on April 12, 1927 before the building was completed. The fire burned for 12 hours and flames were said to have been visible from Long Island. It ignited a debate in the press concerning the ability of the available technology to put out fires in high-rise buildings."

Stadium (LOC)

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  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewisohn_Stadium
    "Lewisohn Stadium was an amphitheater and athletic facility built on the campus of the City College of New York (CCNY). It opened in 1915 and was demolished in 1973."
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks swanq, we'll update the catalog record.
  • Seuss. said:
    Something to keep in mind with all the singers on the program for the 4th of July pageant here - No loudspeakers, no amplifiers, no public address system, not even any decent opera hall acoustics. You needed a set of lungs in those days.

Court House, N.Y. (LOC)

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