Fifth Avenue Hotel

The old Fifth Avenue Hotel, Madison Square, intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, about the 1860s. Illustration engraved by Baldwin & Gleason, N.Y. published about 1900. Text on print: Fifth Avenue Hotel, Madison Square, New York. Hitchcock, Darling & Co. E.A. Darling. Charles N. Vilas.

This six-story luxury hotel opened in 1859 and closed in 1908. It occupied the entire block between West 23rd and West 24th streets, formerly occupied by the Madison Cottage and by the Hippodrome in 1853. The Worth Monument, erected in 1857, is in the center. Behind it, the old Worth House. The Marble Collegiate Church, seen in the distance, was built in 1851 and dedicated in 1854. The Albemarle Hotel, represented in the northwest corner of 24th Street, opened in 1860.