The Sherry Netherland
| The Sherry Netherland | |
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| Basic data | |
| Place: | New York City , United States |
| Construction time : | 1926-1927 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architectural style : | Neo- Romanesque , Neo-Gothic |
| Architect : | Buchman & Kahn, Schultze & Weaver |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | hotel |
| Owner : | Atlas Corporation |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 170.69 m |
| Height to the top: | 170.69 m |
| Floors : | 38 |
The Sherry-Netherland is a 38-story hotel in New York City on the Upper East Side . It is located between 59th Street and 60th Street and Fifth Avenue , in the Upper East Side Historic District . The main address is 781 Fifth Avenue and the secondary address is East 59th Street .
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The building was designed and built by the architects Schultze & Weaver , together with Buchman & Kahn . The Netherland Hotel, designed by William Hume for William Waldorf Astor in the 1890s, was previously located on the property of the Sherry Netherland Hotel . In the winter of 1926 it was demolished and construction work on the Sherry Netherland began. In March 1927 nearing completion, the house was the Louis Sherry, Inc. sold. But the upper floors suffered a spectacular fire when wooden scaffolding caught fire on April 12, 1927, just before the building was completed. The fire burned for 12 hours and flames are said to have been seen from Long Island. It sparked a debate in the press about the ability of available technology to put out fires in high-rise buildings.
The building has been a listed building since 1981.
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tower
View from 59th Street
Sherry Netherland and the General Motors Building
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Individual evidence
- ^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-8129-3107-6 ., P.382
Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 51.5 " N , 73 ° 58 ′ 21.8" W.