Hotel Grosvenor
35 5th Avenue | also 1 East 10th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1925
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1872
Detlef Lienau builds the Grosvenor Apartments, a brownstone 'nest of elegant homes' with suites served by hotel staff
An earlier building on this site: in 1872 Detlef Lienau, a founder of the American Institute of Architects, built the six-story Grosvenor Apartments, topped by a French Second Empire mansard roof. It replaced the freestanding house of the French importer Francis Cottenet. Scribner's Monthly praised it in May 1874 as a model of co-operative living, combining secluded private suites with a first-rate hotel's service.
“…erected in 1872 by Detlef Lienau, one of the founders of the American Institute of Architects…”
- 1877
A waiter wanted for a stabbing in Saratoga is tracked to a job at the Grosvenor Hotel
An earlier building on this site: in October 1877 Richard Branch was accused of fatally stabbing a rival, a fellow waiter, in Saratoga over a woman they both courted. He fled to New York City and found work at the Grosvenor Hotel, but a description had been telegraphed to the police. Ten days after the stabbing, detectives found him at the hotel and arrested him while well-dressed residents looked on.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1925
Schwartz & Gross replace the old Grosvenor with a 15-story neo-Federal hotel, later an NYU dormitory
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Designed by Schwartz & Gross in 1925, the new Grosvenor is a 15-story red-brick building in the neo-Federal style, with a stone base and round-arched windows at the third floor. An annex of the same height adjoins it on East Tenth Street. By the time of the 1969 report, New York University had made it the Samuel Rubin Residence Hall.
“Hotel Grosvenor, now the Samuel Rubin Residence Hall of New York University…”
- 1927
Willa Cather makes the Hotel Grosvenor her fourth and last Village address
Willa Cather's fourth and last Village address was the Grosvenor Hotel, where she lived from 1927 to 1932. Her friend Edith Lewis later wrote that the momentum of Cather's work slowed during the years of hotel living, which brought great personal losses. Even so, she produced Shadows on the Rock, Obscure Destinies and the essay 'A Chance Meeting' during these years.
Source: cather.unl.edu
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