1905 – Hotel Astor, Times Square, New York
With its elaborately decorated public rooms and its roof garden, the Astor Hotel was perceived as the successor to the Astor family’s Waldorf-Astoria on 34th Street.
With its elaborately decorated public rooms and its roof garden, the Astor Hotel was perceived as the successor to the Astor family’s Waldorf-Astoria on 34th Street.
Still in business today but unrecognisable from its early 20th century appearance.
Existing hotel acquired by the Midland Railway Northern Counties Committee, which was the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway until 1903.
The Crown and Mitre Hotel was built in 1905 on the site of the original Crown and Mitre Inn which dates back to before the Jacobite Rebellion of 1746.
Built as an hotel in 1906 and still in operation, the Garrick is a local landmark on Garry Street.
Formerly a seedy, down-at-hell rooming hotel, it was closed and turned into a hostel for the homeless.
The 18th and most luxurious of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s hotels, the Royal Alex closed in 1967 and was demolished in 1971.
Perspective published in The Building News, November 2nd 1906.