Fifth Avenue Hotel

The old Fifth Avenue Hotel, between West 23rd Street and West 24th St., at the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, facing Madison Square. Illustration about 1859, year of its opening, before Albemarle Hotel was completed in 1860, on the corner of West 24th Street (not in this illustration). It was published in the Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, April 21, 1860.

It was the first hotel in the United Stated to have installed a passenger elevator. It offered private bathrooms and fireplace in every room and employed about 400 servants to serve its guests. It attracted many celebrities with its luxurious decoration, parlors and opulent dining room. Ten presidents and several members of the British royalty stayed in the hotel.

This six-story luxury hotel closed in 1908. It was replaced by the Fifth Avenue Building, an office building completed in 1909.