Times Square Hotel
Times Square Hotel | |
 Times Square Hotel in 2008. | |
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| Location | 255 West 43rd Street, New York, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°45′28″N 73°59′20″W / 40.75778°N 73.98889°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1922 |
| Architect | Gronenberg & Leuchtag |
| Architectural style | Renaissance |
| NRHP reference No. | 95000530[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 4, 1995 |
The Times Square Hotel is located in New York, New York. The building was built in 1922 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 1995.
History and description
[edit]Built by the developer Henry Claman in 1922, as president of the West Forty-eighth Street Realty Company. Claman had purchased from the Charles A. Christmas estate some buildings that had been at the corner of 43rd Street and 8th Avenue and added them to a lot Claman already owned on 43rd.[2] It was originally called the Claman Hotel (catering to single men). The hotel was soon acquired by Manger Hotels, who changed the name to the Times Square Hotel in 1923, with one floor reserved for women.
In 1924, four room options, priced between $2 and $8 per night, were available at the hotel; room with running water, connecting bath, private bath or double room with bath.[3]
A partnership headed by Arthur Schwebel ran the building from 1962 to 1981. In 1963, Shwebel changed the name of the hotel to the "Times Square Motor Hotel," adding the word "Motor "because there was a need for moderately priced hotel accommodations with free parking."[4]
In the early 1970s, the hotel became home to the mentally ill and troubled Vietnam War veterans, and New York City subsequently placed welfare recipients there. After a period of deterioration, Covenant House acquired the building in 1984 as real estate investment.[5] Vietnamese-American hotelier Tran Dinh Truong purchased the hotel in 1988. The hotel quickly ran up more than 1,500 safety and building code violations, leading to its takeover by the city in January 1990.[6]
Common Ground, offering affordable housing for working professionals and the formerly homeless, some of whom live with HIV/AIDS, mental illness, or physical disabilities, acquired the building in 1991 as its flagship supportive housing residence.[7]
See also
[edit]- National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan from 14th to 59th Streets
- List of hotels in New York City
References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Plan New $2,500,000 Times Square Hotel: Will Replace Old Buildings", New York Times, Mar 18, 1920
- ^ "TimesMachine: Saturday May 10, 1924 - NYTimes.com" – via TimesMachine.
- ^ New York Times, Aug. 23, 1963.
- ^ Bruner Foundation (1997). Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Gold Award.
- ^ Leland, John (July 24, 2014). "Mr. Tran's Messy Life and Legacy". New York Times. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
- ^ "Breaking Ground | The Times Square". www.breakingground.org. Archived from the original on 2015-10-28.
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