St. Regis Hotel
- Architect
- Trowbridge & Livingston
- Year
- 1904
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The St. Regis Hotel at 699-703 Fifth Avenue was developed by John Jacob Astor IV and completed in 1904 to designs by Trowbridge & Livingston, with an annex by Sloan & Robertson added in 1927. Astor named the hotel after Upper St. Regis Lake in the Adirondacks, and it is now operated by Marriott International with Forbes five-star and AAA five-diamond ratings.
the building
Limestone facade. The 18-story hotel's limestone facade is divided into three horizontal sections resembling a column's base, shaft, and capital; the interior was finished in marble and bronze, with a restaurant, café, and palm court on the first floor and a ballroom and banquet hall on the second.
the style
The hotel was designed in the Beaux-Arts style.
the architect
Trowbridge & Livingston designed the original 1904 hotel; the later annex was designed by Sloan & Robertson.
significance
The St. Regis Hotel is a designated NYC Individual Landmark (LP-01552), designated on November 1, 1988.
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- 689 Fifth Avenue
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