Fifth Avenue Hotel - 1893
Fifth Avenue Hotel from Madison Square, located at 200 5th Avenue, on the northwest corner of 23rd Street. This luxury hotel opened its doors on August 23, 1859 and closed on April 4, 1908. It was the first hotel in the United Stated to have installed a passenger elevator. The site was occupied by the Fifth Avenue Building, an office building completed in 1909.
Photograph by J.S. Johnston (1839-1899), copyright 1893 (expired). Source: The New York Public Library.
Fifth Avenue Hotel is on the right.
Fifth Avenue Hotel, Broadway, west side, 23rd to 25th St. - 1899.
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Fifth Avenue Hotel - 1893
