Albemarle Hotel and Hoffman House

Albemarle Hotel and Hoffman House on Broadway (Madison Square West), between West 24th and West 25th streets in the 19th Century. Unknown photographer, photo taken between 1865 (trees on Worth Square were still protected in 1864) and about 1890. Source: New-York Historical Society.

The six-story Albemarle Hotel, on the corner of West 24th Street (left), was built in 1860. The seven-story Hoffman House opened in 1864. Both hotels were closed in 1915 and replaced by a 16-story building.