Chelsea Hotel

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Chelsea Hotel
National Register of Historic Places
The Chelsea Hotel

The Chelsea Hotel

Chelsea Hotel (New York)
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location Manhattan , New York City , New York
Coordinates 40 ° 44 '40 "  N , 73 ° 59' 48"  W Coordinates: 40 ° 44 '40 "  N , 73 ° 59' 48"  W.
Built 1883-1885
architect Philip Hubert, Pirrson & Company
Architectural style Queen Anne style, neo-Gothic
NRHP number 77000958
The NRHP added December 27, 1977
Stairwell

The historic Chelsea Hotel in New York City is located north of Greenwich Village and south of the Garment District at 222 West 23rd Street in the artist and shopping district of Chelsea with numerous boutiques , galleries , record and book stores. The hotel is a twelve-story, 250-room, red-painted brick building . The lower seven upper floors are equipped with black painted balconies made of cast iron with floral ornaments across the width of the facade . Due to the large number of well-known painters, writers, musicians and artists who temporarily lived and worked in it, the house acquired the reputation of a legendary "artist hotel " and is part of the local cultural color of New York.

Artist hotel

Numerous musicians , writers and artists such as Salvador Dalí , Thomas Wolfe , Arthur Miller , Dylan Thomas , Charles R. Jackson , Nico , Bob Dylan , Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin , Catherine Leroy , Falco , Valerie Solanas and Leonard stayed or stayed at the Chelsea Hotel Cohen (who created a musical memorial for the hotel with the song Chelsea Hotel # 2 on the album New Skin for the Old Ceremony ). The Chelsea was best known in the 1960s through the New York underground art scene (including Andy Warhol ), who discovered the hotel as a "playground" for their film and art activities. In 1966 Warhol and Paul Morrissey shot the internationally successful experimental film The Chelsea Girls in the hotel. Contributors were u. a. Nico , Edie Sedgwick , Gerard Malanga and Marie Menken . Many painters paid their hotel bills with their pictures, some of which are still hanging in the foyer today . When the Czechoslovak film director Miloš Forman was forced to leave his home country because of the Prague Spring , Forman emigrated to the United States and lived in the Chelsea Hotel for almost three years. For Patti Smith , the hotel was "like a doll's house in the Twilight Zone , with hundreds of rooms, each with its own little universe." The hotel hit the headlines in October 1978 when punk musician Sid Vicious was in the room Number 100 stabbed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen and died of an overdose in the same room the following February.

history

The Chelsea Hotel was built by the writer and architect Philip Hubert and first opened as an apartment complex in 1884. Hubert, a student of social theorist Charles Fourier , had planned the house as an affordable place to live with lots of common rooms. In 1905 it was converted into a hotel .

In 1946 the hotel was taken over by three business partners of Hungarian origin: David Bard, Joseph Gross and Julius Krauss. The hotel was owned by these families for 65 years. David Bard's son Stanley began helping out with plumbing around the house in 1957. When his father died in 1964, he took over his shares and began managing the hotel. In the following four decades he created an atmosphere that attracted artists and creative people. They lived as hotel guests or long-term tenants in the Chelsea, sometimes paid with their works or donated cash out of sympathy with them. The building has been a listed building since 1966 and has been a cultural monument since 1977.

In 2007, the Bard family was pushed to sell the hotel by the minority of other owners, and Stanley Bard was deposed as manager. The property was resold several times before being taken over by BD Hotels in 2011. The new owners immediately started with renovation work, which should take a year, but has not yet been completed (as of late 2019). Three quarters of the house are now empty, the remaining quarter is still occupied by long-term tenants who have fought for a right to stay. Artists like Ethan Hawke , who shot Chelsea Walls in the hotel for the film , campaigned to keep the hotel in its old style.

reception

literature

  • Ed Hamilton: Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: Living with Artists and Outlaws in New York's Rebel Mecca . Da Capo Press 2007, ISBN 978-1-56858-379-2
  • Tina and Bengt-Erik Larsson: Hotel Chelsea a legend in sex, drugs and rock'n'roll ( Kindle edition on amazon.com ).
  • Frank Nicolaus: Chelsea. Its reputation is legendary: Since the turn of the century, the New York Hotel Chelsea has been a refuge and stronghold of the bohemians, which gladly accept a little patina if only the atmosphere is right . In: Wolf Uecker (Ed.): Art . The art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, May 1984, ISSN  0173-2781 , p. 66-71 .
  • Nathaniel Rich: Where The Walls Still Talk - An Oral History of the Chelsea Hotel . In: Vanity Fair , October 2013; also ( online ).
  • Nicolaia Rips: Everything but ordinary: Growing up in the Chelsea Hotel , Munich (Nagel & Kimche) 2017, ISBN 978-3312010189

Web links

Commons : Hotel Chelsea  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guide to New York City Landmarks . Wiley 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1 , p. 70 ( excerpt from Google book search)
  2. ^ Nico Cramer: Chelsea Hotel in New York. A haven of legendary bad behavior on the website of the travel magazine Merian
  3. ↑ David Smith: Chelsea's bohemians rage in fight to save New York landmark's soul in The Observer of November 30, 2008
  4. ^ 'Chelsea Girls', Andy Warhol, 1967. In: Tate Gallery. Retrieved March 1, 2020 (UK English).
  5. ↑ Chelsea Girls. In: IMDb. Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Documentary Milos Forman - A Free Life . Directors: Helena Třeštíková and Jakub Hejna, 55 minutes, 2019, Czechoslovakia / France, based on the autobiography Flashback - Memories by Milos Forman with co-author Jan Novak, produced by Arte , Alegria Productions and Negativ sro
  7. ^ Patti Smith: Just Kids. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, p. 137
  8. ^ Stanley Turkel: Built to Last: 100+ Year-Old Hotels in New York . AuthorHouse Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4634-4342-9 , pp. 93 .
  9. ↑ Karin Ceballos Betancur: End of a Refuge. In: The time. August 18, 2011, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  10. ^ Hotel Chelsea work drags on, as long-term tenants hold on. In: The Villager. July 19, 2019, accessed on March 1, 2020 .
  11. ^ Jen Carlson: Inside The Iconic Hotel Chelsea, As It Enters Year Eight Of Construction Hell & Tenants File Lawsuit. In: The Gothamist. New York Public Radio, January 24, 2019, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  12. ^ Juliane Liebert: Chelsea Hotel in New York - ghost train. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 29, 2019, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Historic Chelsea Hotel Closes to Guests. NYTimes.com , July 31, 2011, accessed June 12, 2012 .
  14. ↑ Dee Dee Ramone: Chelsea Horror Hotel (English). Thunder's Mouth Press 2001, ISBN 1-56025-304-5 ; in German at Milena Verlag 2012, ISBN 3-85286-224-8
  15. ^ Christine Metzger: New York . ADAC Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-89905-247-3 , p. 70 ( excerpt in the Google book search)
  16. ^ Terrence Diggory: Encyclopedia of the New York School poets . Infobase Publishing 2009, ISBN 978-0-8160-5743-6 , pp. 94–95 ( excerpt from Google book search)
  17. ↑ The Chelsea Hotel on the website of the daily newspaper Der Standard on July 19, 2007
  18. ↑ Petra Bail: The Universe in the Dollhouse. Refuge for beat generations and the underground: "Chelsea Hotel" premiered with a lot of rock'n'roll at the Stuttgart State Theater . In: Cannstatter Zeitung, 26.09.2016, p. 20 .