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Hotel Wolcott

4 West 31st Street, Tenderloin District, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Summary

The Beaux Arts style Hotel Wolcott is a distinctive early 20th-century hotel in midtown Manhattan, located close to numerous sites for entertainment, business and shopping as well as various transportation methods. Designed by the prominent architect John H. Duncan, the hotel served as a meeting place for many important political events such as LaGuardia’s inaugural ball, and was the long-term residence of well-known people such as Isadora Duncan and Doris Duke. The hotel was typical of the midtown hotels of the period in the variety and quality of its accommodations but stood out for its distinctive classical French Beaux Arts style consisting of over-scaled keystones, brackets and cartouches, rendered with the sure hand of a master architect.

Faced in pink brick and limestone with a substantial copper- covered mansard roof, the building provides a solid and graceful facade in this busy part of the city. Duncan is best known for his designs for the General Ulysses S. Grant National Memorial as well as the Soldiers’ and Sailor’s Memorial Arch in Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. He is also responsible for numerous classically-styled and distinguished homes for wealthy New Yorkers, particularly in midtown and the Upper East Side. At the Hotel Wolcott, Duncan created a unique classical design, appropriate for the exuberance of the period, and one that gives a distinctive presence to this building which continues to fulfill the same functions for which it was designed, more than 100 years ago.

DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS

Development of the Area

In the decades before the end of the 19th century, the area around Broadway and West 34th Street, known as Herald Square, gained prominence as the city’s most important entertainment district. As with the city’s residential districts, this section had moved progressively northward, in this case along Broadway, from Union Square to Madison Square and then Herald Square. "All the world came to Broadway to shop, to flirt, to dine, to gamble, to find amusement and to meet acquaintances…" Local attractions included theaters, such as Madison Square Garden (1897, replaced 1889-91 by McKim, Mead & White building, demolished), the Metropolitan Opera House (1883, Broadway and 39th Street, demolished), the Casino Theatre (1882, 39th Street, demolished) and Harrigan’s Theater (later Herald Square Theater). The area of Broadway between 23rd and 42nd Street came to be called "The Great White Way" because of all the electric lights along this section of the street.

Attracted by the crowds who attended the shows, restaurants and hotels moved northward into this area as well. Rector’s and Delmonico’s restaurants were among the first to open nearby to satisfy the gastronomical needs of the area’s patrons. The first hotel in the area was Gilsey House (1869-71, Stephen Decatur Hatch, a designated New York City Landmark) at Broadway and 29th Street. Soon afterward, the Albemarle, the St. James the Victoria (all demolished) and the Grand (a designated New York City Landmark) opened in the area.

Retail businesses followed the northward movement also, from Ladies Mile and other more southerly locations. Rogers, Peet & Company moved to 1260 Broadway in 1889, while R.H. Macy’s opened their large store on Herald Square in 1902. Fifth Avenue also attracted businesses, replacing the town houses of wealthy families. B. Altman’s opened its large store at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in 1904, followed slightly later by Tiffany’s and Gorham Silver.

As these changes came to the avenues, the streets between them were also affected. Previously the location for large, individual homes, these streets, due to their proximity to these active and newly developing sections, began to attract larger institutions, such as clubs and hotels. This development was also spurred by the various new transportation lines and stations that made the area more easily accessible. These included crosstown streetcars on 34th Street, the Sixth Avenue Elevated trains, the Hudson Tubes to New Jersey, and the new Pennsylvania Station on Seventh Avenue.

In addition to those earlier hotels already mentioned, scores of new hotels and apartment hotels opened in the late 19th and early 20th century, including the classical palazzo Hotel Imperial (1889-91, Broadway and 32nd Street, McKim, Mead and White, demolished), the Holland House, called "one of the most opulent and luxurious hotels in city" (1891, Harding & Gooch, Fifth Avenue and 30th Street, demolished ), the Waldorf Hotel (1891-93, Henry J. Hardenburgh, 1895-97 expanded as Waldorf Astoria, Fifth Ave and 34th Street, demolished), the Hotel Royalton (1898, Rossiter & Wright, 44 West 44th Street), the Hotel Martinique (1897-98, expanded 1901-03, 1909-11, Henry J. Hardenbergh, Broadway and 32nd Street, a designated New York City Landma

Where I used to live, 600 E 8th St wm

These twin towers were built approx 1968 and 1969. They were obviously built and managed by the same company originally, but have been owned and managed separately for years, now.

Both were apartments when I rented there in March 1999, but are now sold as condos. It was the first place I ever lived that had a doorman.

They do have a full boiler/chiller system, so no air conditioners have to stick out of windows, etc.

These slide-by windows are new. The wind used to make the crank-out "slat" type windows just flap! I once came home to find the carpet wet under the window, on the 10th floor!