Hotel Majestic (New York City)

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Hotel Majestic
Basic data
Place: New York City , United States
Construction time : 1892-1893
Opening: 1894
Abort : 1930
Status : Tore off
Architect : Alfred Zucker
Use / legal
Usage : hotel
Apartments : 600
Owner : Jacob Rothschild
Technical specifications
Floors : 11
Building-costs: $ 3 million

The Hotel Majestic was a hotel in New York City 's Upper West Side , between the 71 st Street and 72 nd Street, and the Central Park West . This is where the apartment house The Majestic stands today .

The native German Jacob Rothschild , who became a respected entrepreneur in New York, bought the property opposite the apartment house The Dakota in 1891 to build a luxury hotel there. To this end, he founded the Majestic Hotel Company with a capital of $ 3 million . The German architect Alfred Zucker was commissioned with the planning . John H. Edelmann was responsible for the interior design . In addition to a ballroom and a restaurant, the 600-room hotel also had its own bowling alley, a representative lobby, and was the first building in New York City to have a roof garden and space for several horse-drawn carriages.

The building was also known as "Der Judenplatz" ("the jewish place") because of its sweeping celebrations and meetings of great social figures, including entrepreneurs, artists and politicians, as well as its liberal, less restrictive rules of conduct.

There was a lawsuit shortly after the hotel opened due to possible bribery and the ignoring of given building regulations.

In April 1892, the building was finally bought by Irwin Chanin for $ 16 million. On the April 26, 1926 front page of the New York Times , he announced the demolition to make way for his own skyscraper, The Majestic . The demolition began on October 1, 1929 and ended in the summer of 1930.

Known residents

  • During her American tour in 1916, the French actress Sarah Bernhardt lived in the Hotel Majestic.
  • The American writer, theater and literary critic Dorothy Parker lived with her father in the hotel after finishing school. She processed her experiences in her short story An Apartment House Anthology , published in 1921 .
  • During his time in the USA, the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler lived in an apartment on the 11th floor from December 20, 1907.
  • Confederate President Jefferson Davis' widow died in her room in 1906.
  • The Italian star tenor Enrico Caruso lived at the Majestic while performing in New York City .
  • The writer Arthur Somers Roche had a room in the Majestic for a while. Likewise the writer Edna Ferber , who lived here during the 1920s. At the same time, cartoonist HT Webster and actress Lillian Russell also stayed at the hotel.
  • The well-known columnist OO McIntyre received an apartment for free to use for the positive external image of the hotel .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See Majestic Apartments, Landmarks Preservation Commission March 8, 1988 , page 3
  2. ↑ a b c d e f See Kevin C. Fitzpatrick: A Journey Into Dorothy Parker's New York , p. 26
  3. ^ A b Jacob Rothschild dies suddenly at 68 , The New York Times, April 5, 1911
  4. ^ Cf. Charles E. Gregersen: LOUIS SULLIVAN AND HIS MENTOR, JOHN HERMAN EDELMANN, ARCHITECT , page 59
  5. ↑ See To Hear Mr. Rothschild, Protest against the Zuckers' Testimony as to the Hotel Majestic , The New York Times, February 7, 1896
  6. ↑ See Christopher Gray: Streetscapes | The Majestic, Where the Name Says It All , nytimes.com, Aug 12, 2007
  7. ↑ Chanin Brothers Plan $ 16,000,000 NY hotel , April 29, 1929
  8. ^ Sarah Bernhardt At 42 And At 71 , The Daily Times, Jan. 20, 1923, p. 8
  9. ↑ See Zoltan Roman: Gustav Mahler's American Years, 1907-1911: A Documentary History
  10. ^ Cf. Jens Malte Fischer: Gustav Mahler , page 568
  11. ↑ Mrs. Jefferson Davis Dead At The Majestic , The New York Times, October 17, 1906
  12. ↑ See Pierre VR Key: Enrico Caruso, A Biography , Boston 1922, page 179 ( online )
  13. ↑ See The New York Times, June 5, 1910, p. 46 ( online )
  14. ↑ See JB Lippincott: The Worker And His Work , 1920, p. 346
  15. ↑ See Frank Merriwell: Fathers , 1964, p. 275

Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′ 33.5 "  N , 73 ° 58 ′ 35.2"  W.