Webster Hotel
Appearance
Webster Hotel | |
Location | 40 West 45th Street, New York, New York |
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Coordinates | 40°45′21″N 73°58′52.7″W / 40.75583°N 73.981306°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1902 |
Architect | Tracy & Swartwout |
Architectural style | Classical Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 84002806[1] |
NYSRHP No. | 06101.001789 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | September 7, 1984 |
Designated NYSRHP | August 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
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Elie, Paul (December 9, 2015). "The Secret History of One Hundred Years of Solitude". Vanity Fair.
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Categories:
- Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan
- Neoclassical architecture in New York City
- Hotel buildings completed in 1902
- Hotels in Manhattan
- Midtown Manhattan
- New York State Register of Historic Places in New York County
- Manhattan Registered Historic Place stubs
- Manhattan building and structure stubs