Architecture of Metropolitan Hotel - about 1850
This the original design of the Metropolitan Hotel published about 1850 (then known as Niblo's Hotel). View looking east from Prince Street, with the hotel facing Broadway. Lithograph by Augustus Fay. Source: Print Collection from the New York Public Library.
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The Metropolitan Hotel opened in 1852. It closed in 1895 and it was demolished in the same year. It was designed in the Italian palazzo style by architects John Butler Snook and Joseph Trench. The five-story building occupied 360 feet on Broadway and 210 feet on Prince Street. Its façade was in brownstone on the four floors above the stores on ground floor. Inside the building there was the renowned Niblo's Theatre.
Architecture of Metropolitan Hotel - about 1850
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