Waldorf-Astoria (1893–1929)
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The Waldorf-Astoria was a hotel on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, built in 1893 and razed in 1929. It originated as two hotels, built side by side by feuding relatives, was expanded in 1897
Engraved vignettes of the original hotels, c. 1915
The Waldorf Hotel in 1893
The hotel after the addition of the much larger Astoria wing in 1915
The Waldorf's floor plan
William Waldorf Astor
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William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor was an American-English attorney, politician, diplomat, hotelier, publisher and philanthropist. Astor was a scion of the very wealthy Astor family of New York
Waldorf-Astoria (1893–1929)
…in 1931. The original Waldorf Hotel opened on March 13, 1893, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street, on the site where millionaire developer William Waldorf Astor had previously built his mansion. Constructed in the German Renaissance style by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, it stood 225 feet (69 m) high, with 15…
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor
Share of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad Company, issued 9. April 1890, owned by William Waldorf Astor