Knickerbocker Hotel
- Architect
- Bruce Price
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Knickerbocker Hotel at 1462-1470 Broadway, on the southeastern corner of Broadway and 42nd Street in Times Square, was built by John Jacob Astor IV, designed in 1901, and opened in 1906. Its location near the Theater District was meant to draw both residential guests and theatergoers. The hotel was designed largely in the Beaux-Arts style by Marvin & Davis, with Bruce Price serving as consultant.
the building
Mixed facades. The Broadway and 42nd Street frontages are built of red brick with terracotta details beneath a prominent mansard roof, while a 41st Street annex, built in 1894 as part of the earlier St. Cloud Hotel, carries a Romanesque Revival facade designed by Philip C. Brown.
300 rooms and a subway link. The hotel held 300 rooms, a restaurant, a coffee shop, and a roof bar. Its original 1905 interiors were designed by Trowbridge & Livingston, and scattered remnants survive of an entrance that once led directly from the Times Square subway station into the hotel's basement.
the style
The hotel is built largely in the Beaux-Arts style, credited to Marvin & Davis with Bruce Price as consultant, distinguishing its Broadway and 42nd Street facades from the Romanesque Revival annex on 41st Street.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Bruce Price served as consulting architect on the primarily Beaux-Arts design credited to Marvin & Davis.
significance
The Knickerbocker Hotel is designated both a New York City Landmark and a National Register of Historic Places listed property.
nearby
- Town Hall
- New Amsterdam Theater
- The Chatwal New York
- The Times Square Building
- W. R. Grace Building
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York