Mansfield Hotel

12 West 44th Street | Midtown | built 1902

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1902
John McCullough and Frederick Jennings develop the Hotel Mansfield
Former Vermont governor John G. McCullough and his Manhattan neighbor, lawyer Frederick B. Jennings, hired Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen to design a 12-story apartment hotel on the site of three former stables on West 44th Street. The Hotel Mansfield was completed in 1902 at a projected cost of about $200,000.
Source: Wikipedia
1925
September
The Mansfield becomes a coeducational residence
New owners hired Wilson J. Hodges as manager in September 1925 and converted the formerly all-male Hotel Mansfield into a coeducational residence, ending its run as a bachelors-only hotel.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1935
The hotel opens the Mirror Room nightclub
In 1935 the Mansfield added a nightclub called the Mirror Room, built around a fifteen-by-nine-foot blue mirror as its centerpiece.
Source: Wikipedia
2004
New owners restore the hotel's cast-iron staircases
Brad M. Reiss and John Yoon bought the run-down hotel in 2004 and spent two years renovating it. Designers Stephen B. Jacobs and Andi Pepper restored the building's original cast-iron staircases and mahogany banisters while adding modern amenities.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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