Broadway and 41st Street

Broadway, east side, at West 41st Street, showing, on the right the Hotel Continental (former Hotel Albany, former Hotel Vendome), which was demolished in 1930. On the left, the Calvert Building, seen from across the wreckage of the Broadway Theatre, demolished in the early 1929. Photo by Percy Loomis Sperr (1890-1964), taken on March 11, 1929. Source: Photographic views of New York City from the collections of the New York Public Library.

The old 7-story Calvert Building, former Stuart House and Hotel Calvert, was erected in the early 1890s. The hotel closed in 1921 and became an office building. In 1951, it was replaced by the 16-story 8 Times Square at 1460 Broadway.