Trump Parc

106 Central Park South | also 105 West 58th Street, 101 West 58th Street, 1421 Avenue of the Americas | Midtown | built 1930

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  1. 1930

    The new hotel contracts with Aeolian for a $12,000 organ that moves out in 1931

    The Barbizon-Plaza, billed as the first music-art residence center in the country, ordered an organ from the Aeolian Company. The contract was dated May 21, 1930 and signed on July 12. It set the price at $12,000 and called for installation by October 30 in a chamber the hotel prepared. The instrument had two manuals and 15 ranks. It did not stay long: in 1931 Aeolian moved it into the auditorium of the clubhouse of the American Woman's Association on West 57th Street.

    Source: nycago.org

  2. 1930

    May 12

    The Barbizon-Plaza Hotel opens for artists and musicians

    The Barbizon-Plaza Hotel, a 38-story art deco building, opened at 106 Central Park South with 1,400 rooms. William H. Silk built it for $10 million to designs by Laurence Emmons. It was aimed at artists and musicians, with soundproof practice rooms, art studios, and two performance halls. It was meant as a co-ed counterpart to East 63rd Street's Barbizon Hotel for Women.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1933

    July

    The Depression-hit Barbizon-Plaza is foreclosed and sold at auction

    The hotel had cost $10 million to build and opened on May 12, 1930 with 1,400 rooms. Within about two and a half years the Depression left its management struggling to keep up with the mortgage. The property was foreclosed, and in July 1933 it went to auction and sold for $4,553,238.

    Source: nycago.org

  4. 1958

    August 30

    The Mattachine Society holds its fifth convention at the hotel

    The Barbizon-Plaza hosted the Mattachine Society's fifth convention in 1958. From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s it also hosted other homophile movement events, including a Daughters of Bilitis convention in June 1964 and an East Coast Homophile Organizations conference in September 1965.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 1964

    June 20

    The Daughters of Bilitis open their convention here after the FBI learns of their first venue

    Daughters of Bilitis opened its convention at the Barbizon-Plaza on June 20, 1964; it was titled "The Threshold of the Future." Organizers had meant to meet at the Hotel New Yorker but changed hotels once the FBI identified that location. About 100 people attended, hearing Edward Sagarin (writing as Donald Webster Cory), group president Cleo Glenn and psychologist Ernest van den Haag. Del Martin later said the FBI never caught up with them.

    Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

  6. 1965

    September 25

    Homophile groups gather for the ECHO conference under a police guard

    On September 25-26, 1965, the East Coast Homophile Organizations held "The Homosexual Citizen in the Great Society" at the hotel. More than 150 people came, including leaders of 12 groups, and the source calls it the largest gathering of homophile representatives up to then. The event had been moved from the Biltmore Hotel after a threat to disrupt it, and a police sergeant guarded the conference. ABC interviewed Mattachine president Dick Leitsch, and CBS filmed footage for its 1967 documentary The Homosexuals.

    Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

  7. 1973

    Lambert Brussels and Loeb Rhoades buy the Barbizon-Plaza for $11 million

    In 1973 Lambert Brussels Real Estate Corp. and Loeb Rhoades bought the hotel for $11 million and tied it to the Penta Hotels chain. The new owners completed about $2 million of renovations. Even so, the hotel earned only minimal profits for them.

    Source: Wikipedia

  8. 1985

    December 14

    Donald Trump closes the hotel to convert it into condominiums

    Donald Trump bought the Barbizon-Plaza in 1981 and closed the hotel on December 14, 1985, to prepare it for conversion to condominiums. He renamed it Trump Parc. The conversion, into 340 condominium units, was finished around 1988, after more than five decades as a hotel.

    Source: Wikipedia

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