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Webster Hotel

Coordinates: 40°45′21″N 73°58′52.7″W / 40.75583°N 73.981306°W / 40.75583; -73.981306
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Webster Hotel
The Midtown Executive Club in 2008.
Webster Hotel is located in New York City
Webster Hotel
Webster Hotel is located in New York
Webster Hotel
Webster Hotel is located in the United States
Webster Hotel
Location40 West 45th Street, New York, New York
Coordinates40°45′21″N 73°58′52.7″W / 40.75583°N 73.981306°W / 40.75583; -73.981306
Arealess than one acre
Built1902
ArchitectTracy & Swartwout
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.84002806[1]
NYSRHP No.06101.001789
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 7, 1984
Designated NYSRHPAugust 3, 1984

The Webster Hotel is located in New York City. The building was built in 1902 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 7, 1984. It was designed by the architectural firm of Tracy and Swartwout, and built in the Classical Revival style.

It functions today as The Midtown Executive Club, it is also marketed as a hotel to the general public under the name Club Quarters, Midtown.

Famous visitors

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Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez stayed with his family in the Webster Hotel during a period when he moved from Havana to New York City to work for Cuban press agency Prensa Latina.[2]

The hotel was the first marital home of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor while he attended Columbia Law School.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Elie, Paul (December 9, 2015). "The Secret History of One Hundred Years of Solitude". Vanity Fair.
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