Metropolitan Hotel on Broadway

The Metropolitan Hotel on Broadway, looking north. Photo (originally a stereoscopic view) taken between about 1858, when this kind of view became popular in New York, and 1880, when another photo shows offices in the building on the right. Source: American views, New York City, from the NYPL.

The Metropolitan Hotel opened in 1852. 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. The hotel closed in 1895 and it was demolished in the same year.