Hendrik Hudson Hotel
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Hendrik Hudson Hotel was a prospective eighteen story New York City edifice. It was conceived in 1897 by a syndicate of capitalists from England and the United States. It was to occupy a site on Riverside Drive, overlooking the New Jersey Palisades. The building's planners used the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as a model. It was budgeted to cost $4,000,000.
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Architectural plans and building interior
Eugene Kirby, a former manager of the Marie Antoinette Hotel, was selected to supervise the construction of the Hendrik Hudson Hotel. A plot of ground measuring two hundred to two hundred fifty feet was selected and obtained for the site on Riverside Drive. The first floor was envisioned to contain an office, a smoking room, reception room, ladies' billiard room, and a parlor. A balcony restaurant and private dining rooms were planned for the second floor. Seven hundred and fifty rooms, divided into suites, would occupy the remaining floors. The establishment would have catered to a clientele primarily of families instead of a transient trade, because of its uptown location. Additional features envisioned were a banquet hall, planned to seat one thousand people, and a splendorous roof garden.
Ingenious transportation
A steam yacht docked near the hotel was a unique idea of the hotel's conceivers. It would have made frequent trips to the lower portion of New York City for businessmen as well as guests who desired to go shopping. Tally ho coaches were considered for transporting people staying at the hotel to city suburbs, when the weather was favorable. A market garden in New Jersey was imagined to raise necessary supplies for the business.[1]
Hendrik Hudson namesake
The steamboat Hendrik Hudson, which journeyed from New York City to London, England[2] and Albany, New York, sailed during the 1850s and 1860s.[3] A room at the Roosevelt Hotel was named Hendrik Hudson. Fan dancer Sally Rand gave a speech there entitled "How I Sold Sally Rand", in February 1935.[4] A hotel named Hendrik Hudson was built in Troy, New York.[5] Long vacant, it was being used for office space and commercial ventures by the late 1980s.[6]
References
- ↑ "Hotel On Riverside Drive", The New York Times, October 22, 1897, pg. 12, accessed March 25, 2009
- ↑ "Marine Intelligence", The New York Times, March 9, 1855, pg. 8.
- ↑ "Navigation On The Hudson", The New York Times, pg. 8.
- ↑ "Sally Rand", The Washington Post, February 17, 1935, pg. B2.
- ↑ "Tiernan Rites Held", The Washington Post, October 26, 1946, pg. 2.
- ↑ "The Collar City Is Loosening Its Ties to the Past", The New York Times, January 22, 1989, pg. 36.
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