Metropolitan Hotel on Broadway and Prince Street

The old Metropolitan Hotel seen from, looking up Broadway from near Prince Street. Undated photo from George P. Hall & Son photograph collection, New-York Historical Society.

Old stores and offices on the east side Broadway. On the extreme left, at 562 Broadway, a homeopathic business. Clirehugh's Wigs at 564 Broadway. Fine Clothing and J.W. McKinley on the corner of Spring Street replaced William Ullner by 1884 (see photo dated 1880). Later, a six-story larger building replaced these three four-story buildings. The Utility poles seen in this photo were put down after the Great Blizzard of 1888 and wires were buried. This photograph was taken about the second half of the 1880s.

The Metropolitan Hotel was a luxury hotel in Manhattan, opened in 1852 and it included the prestigious Niblo's Theatre. It was located on the northeast corner of Broadway and Prince Street. It was designed in the Italian palazzo style by architects John Butler Snook and Joseph Trench. The hotel closed in 1895 and the building was demolished in the same year.