Cumberlan House at 22nd Street

The Cumberland House, former St. Germain Hotel, at 22nd Street, on the southern part of the block, where Flatiron Building was erected in 1901 and 1902. Photo by Byron Company, 1898. Source: Museum of the City of New York.

The Regina Music Box store is on the northwest corner of Broadway. At the time, the Cumberland also housed the headquarters of the Jockey Club, founded on February 9, 1894.

The old Hotel St. Germain opened in February 1856. In 1880, it was renovated, expanded and renamed Cumberland House. The ground floor housed some stores and the Madison Square Post office (opened in 1856). The hotel was demolished in 1901 to make way for the Flatiron Building, completed in 1902.