Lowell Hotel

28 East 63rd Street | Upper East Side | built 1926

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

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1926
The Lowell Hotel opens on East 63rd Street
Real estate investor Leo H. Wise assembles a site of three houses at 28-32 East 63rd Street and hires architect Henry S. Churchill to design a fifteen-story apartment hotel, announced in September 1925. The Art Deco building, faced in tapestry brick with a terra-cotta base and a mosaic by Bertram Hartman, opens as the Lowell Hotel in 1926.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1932
February
Dorothy Parker moves into the Lowell after a suicide attempt
Writer Dorothy Parker takes an apartment at the Lowell Hotel in February 1932, following a suicide attempt at the Algonquin Hotel. Over the next two years she writes some of her best-known short stories there, including "Lady with a Lamp" and "The Waltz."
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1974
December 14
Walter Lippmann dies ten months after his wife at the Lowell
Columnist Walter Lippmann and his wife Helen have lived at the Lowell Hotel since around 1970. Helen dies of a heart attack on February 16, 1974, and Walter follows on December 14 of the same year.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1984
The Lowell's facade and interiors are restored
In 1984, the firms Gruzen Partnership and Reynolds Partnership carry out a restoration of the Lowell Hotel's 1926 Art Deco facade and interiors.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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