Hotel Gerard

123 West 44th Street | also 125 West 44th Street | Times Square | built 1894

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

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1894
George Keister designs the Hotel Gerard apartment hotel
Architect George Keister completes the 13-story Hotel Gerard at 123 West 44th Street for developers William Rankin and Alexander Moore. Blending Renaissance, Gothic and Romanesque styles, the 362-room building is built as a residential hotel for well-to-do tourists and long-term theater-district occupants.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1916
A kitchen fire displaces 350 guests at the Hotel Gerard
A fire breaks out in the Hotel Gerard's kitchen, forcing roughly 350 guests from the building and causing about $10,000 in damage. The hotel continues operating afterward, though it later slides into decline under the name Hotel Langwell.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1934
The Depression-era hotel is foreclosed and sold
The Hotel Gerard, by then renamed the Hotel Langwell and struggling through the Depression, is foreclosed on and sold for $585,000 in 1934. The building continues as a low-rent hotel for decades, operating as a welfare hotel known as the "123 Hotel" by the 1970s.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2007
The former Hotel Gerard reopens as AKA Times Square
After decades as a declining welfare hotel, the landmarked former Hotel Gerard at 123 West 44th Street is renovated and reopens in 2007 as AKA Times Square, an extended-stay hotel with 105 suites.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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