Old Hotels on Broadway and Worth Monument - about the 1880s
Old hotels on west side Broadway facing Madison Square, north from near 24th Street, across 25th to 26th streets. Worth Monument is on the right. Photograph about the late 1880s. The overhead wires were buried about 1890. Source: Photographic views of New York City, from the collections of the New York Public Library.
The Albemarle Hotel, on the northwest corner of West 24th Street, opened in 1860. The adjoining Hoffman House, opened in 1864, and its annex on the corner of 25th Street joined the hotel in 1870. Worth House is behind the monument and the building on the northwest corner of 25th Street was part of it. The St. James Hotel is on the corner of 26th St. It was built in 1857 and demolished in 1896. Fifth Avenue Hotel is to the left.
Overhead wires and utility poles were gone.
St. James Hotel
Old Hotels on Broadway and Worth Monument - about the 1880s
W 24th Street
Broadway
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