NYC, Plaza Hotel, 1907
Construction on the first Plaza Hotel by Central Park in New York began in 1883. The builders ran out of money, and the New York Life Insurance Company foreclosed and hired the celebrated architects, McKim, Mead & White to complete the hotel, which finally opened on October 1, 1890. It soon became apparent that the first hotel was far too small, and it was demolished in 1905. A new and larger Plaza Hotel, a French Renaissance château-style building designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, was constructed in twenty-seven months at a cost of $ million, opening to the public on October 1, 1907.
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