NEW YORK CITY - McAlpin Hotel - Grill Room (Marine Grill) - 1915 for Sale

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NEW YORK CITY - McAlpin Hotel - Grill Room (Marine Grill) - 1915 For Sale

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NEW YORK CITY - McAlpin Hotel - Grill Room (Marine Grill) - 1915:
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NEW YORK CITY - McAlpin Hotel - Grill Room (Marine Grill) - 1915: Herald Towers, formerly the Hotel McAlpin, is a residential condominium building on Herald Square, along Broadway between 33rd and 34th Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Constructed from 1910 to 1912 by the Greeley Square Hotel Company, it operated as a short-term hotel until 1976. The building was designed by Frank Mills Andrews in the Italian Renaissance style and was the largest hotel in the world at the time of its completion, with 1,500 guestrooms. The hotel was expanded in 1917, when Warren and Wetmore designed an annex with 200 rooms. The building is 25 stories high, with a roof 390 feet (120 m) above the curb, as well as four basement levels. It is divided into three wings facing Broadway and Sixth Avenue and is largely clad in brick, limestone, and terracotta. The hotel building contains 13,000 short tons (12,000 long tons; 12,000 t) of structural steel as well as an extensive system of mechanical equipment. Originally, the hotel included a triple-height lobby clad in marble and stone, as well as various public rooms in the Renaissance and Louis XVI styles. In the hotel's basement was the Marine Grill, which could fit 250 people. On the upper stories, two floors were set aside for men and women. The top floor had men's baths and a ballroom. In the late 1970s, the hotel was converted into about 690 apartments. This Divided Back Era postcard, mailed in 1915 with Pennsylvania Terminal Station postal cancellation, is in good condition but there is some creasing.