Calvert Building, Broadway and 41st Street

The old 7-story Calvert Building, former Stuart House and Hotel Calvert, on the northeast corner of Broadway and West 41st Street. Photo by Percy Loomis Sperr (1890-1964), dated May 22, 1930. Source: Photographic views of New York City, from the collections of the New York Public Library.

The building opened in the early 1890s as Stuart House (1456 Broadway) and became Hotel Calvert in the early 20th century. 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.

On the right, the back door of the Bush Terminal Building, completed in 1918 at 139 West 41st Street. The clearing in the right foreground was the site of the Hotel Continental, former Hotel Albany, former Hotel Vendome.