Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
- Architect
- Schultze & Weaver
- Year
- 1893
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel and residential condominium building at 301 Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets in Midtown Manhattan. Designed by Schultze & Weaver and completed in 1931, it rises 47 stories to 625 feet in the Art Deco style. It was the world's tallest hotel until 1957, when Moscow's Hotel Ukraina surpassed it, and became one of the world's most prestigious and best-known hotels. Both its exterior and interior are designated New York City landmarks.
the building
Scale and suites. By 2009 the Waldorf Astoria and Towers held 1,416 rooms, including the Presidential Suite, furnished in a Georgian style.
the style
Schultze & Weaver designed the Waldorf Astoria in the Art Deco style, giving the 47-story tower the geometric massing and ornament characteristic of the era's grand hotels.
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Schultze & Weaver designed the Waldorf Astoria, completed in 1931.
significance
Both the exterior and interior of the Waldorf Astoria are designated official landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, with the individual landmark designation (LP-01812) dated January 5, 1993. The original Waldorf-Astoria, built in the 1890s a few blocks away, was demolished in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building. Conrad Hilton acquired management rights in 1949, and the Hilton Hotels Corporation bought the hotel outright in 1972; it underwent a $150 million renovation by Lee Jablin in the 1980s and early 1990s.
nearby
- Saint Bartholomew's Church and Community House
- General Electric Building
- Villard Houses
- 451-455 Madison Avenue and 29 1/2 East 50th Street
- Seagram Building
- 400 Madison Avenue Building