Vanderbilt Hotel, Park Avenue and 34th Street

The Vanderbilt Hotel, located at Park Avenue and East 34th Street. The 22-story Hotel opened its doors on January 10, 1912. The Vanderbilt heirs sold the building in 1925. In the 1960s, the lower facade was stripped away and some statues on the parapet were removed. In 1967, the hotel was converted to apartments in the upper floors, with offices in the lower six floors.

The Community Church (then Unitarian Church of the Messiah), on the right, inaugurated in 1867, was replaced by the apartment-hotel 10 Park Avenue, built in 1931. To the right, on the east side of the Avenue opposite the Vanderbilt Hotel, stands the 71st Regiment Armory (1893).

Photograph by Detroit Publishing Co. taken between 1911 and early 1912 (the building under construction, seen in the distance, had its structure about finished in a photo published in the The American Architect, February 14, 1912). Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.