Hoffman House, Manhattan

Hoffman House, New York City, and its annexes on 25th Street, seen from 5th Avenue. Engraving published in 1885 by the Photo-Engraving Company, New York, in the The Hoffman House, C.H. Read & E.S. Stokes. Proprietors − Its Attractions by F.G. de Fontain.

The original Hoffman House is the building on the left. The building on the corner of Broadway and 25th Street was a former mansion, which was annexed to the hotel in 1870. Behind it is the 8-story annex completed by 1885. In 1869, two houses on West 24th Street were also added, but not represented in the illustration. Albemarle Hotel, completed in 1860, is to the left, behind a tree.

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