Hotel des Artistes
11 West 67th Street | also 9 West 67th Street, 1 West 67th Street | Lincoln Square | built 1918
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- 1917
Artists open the Hotel des Artistes as a home with studios
In 1914 a group of artists including Walter Russell and Frank DuMond bought land here to build homes with room to work. George Mort Pollard designed the ornate Gothic building, completed in 1917 with 119 units, high-ceilinged studio apartments, a swimming pool, ballrooms, rooftop squash courts, a gym and a restaurant. Residents over the years included Isadora Duncan, Norman Rockwell, Noël Coward and Rudolph Valentino.
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- 1929
Writer Harry Crosby dies in a murder-suicide at the Hotel des Artistes
Harry Crosby, a writer and nephew of J.P. Morgan, killed himself and his mistress, Josephine Bigelow, in the building in 1929, in an apparent murder-suicide. He appears in the list of notable figures tied to the Hotel des Artistes, which drew many writers and artists.
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- 1934
Howard Chandler Christy completes the first of his wood-nymph murals in the Café des Artistes
The ground-floor Café des Artistes opened in 1917 to serve residents, whose apartments had no kitchens. Illustrator Howard Chandler Christy, a tenant until his death in 1952, painted six panels of wood nymphs for it, the first finished in 1934. Owner George Lang closed the café in 2009, and the murals stayed on in its successor, the Leopard at des Artistes, which closed in February 2026.
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- 1968
Novelist Fannie Hurst dies in her Hotel des Artistes apartment after sending her publishers two unpublished novels
Fannie Hurst, the novelist, died on February 23, 1968, at her apartment in the Hotel des Artistes after a brief illness. A few weeks earlier she had sent her publishers two new novels, one untitled and the other called Lonely Is Only a Word. Neither was ever published.
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- 1970
The Hotel des Artistes becomes a full cooperative, and longtime tenants are evicted after a court fight
In 1970 a new owner bought the Hotel des Artistes and turned it into a full cooperative. Several longtime tenants lost their apartments after a lengthy court battle. The building had been home to artists, writers and politicians since it opened in 1917.
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- 1975
George Lang reinvents the ground-floor Café des Artistes
Restaurateur George Lang takes over the hotel's run-down ground-floor cafe in 1975 and renovates it, drawing in new diners. Café des Artistes remains open for more than three decades until Lang and his wife, Gloria, close it in 2009 during the recession.
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- 1977
Audrey Rose builds a copy of a Hotel des Artistes apartment on a Hollywood sound stage
The supernatural drama Audrey Rose (1977) gives the Hotel des Artistes a prominent role. For the film, set designers built a copy of one of the building's apartments on a Hollywood sound stage.
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