St. Regis Hotel, 5th Avenue

Exterior view of Saint Regis Hotel from 5th Avenue, located at 2 East 55th Street in Manhattan, between Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue. This 20-story hotel was built by John Jacob Astor IV, completed in 1904. He also built the Astoria Hotel in 1897. The St. Regis New York was declared a New York City Landmark in 1988. Today it is part of Marriott International. Photograph by Irving Underhill, 1905. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.