Holland Hotel
396 West Street | also 305 West 10th Street | West Village | built 1904
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.
- 1904
Saloon keeper Albert Adler opens the three-story Holland Hotel at West 10th Street
Albert Adler, a Saxony-born restaurateur, bought the corner in January 1903 and hired architect Charles Stegmayer to design a three-story neo-Renaissance hotel, budgeted at $20,000. The Holland Hotel was finished in February 1904, and Adler ran a liquor saloon in it. The building is now one of the last hotels left on the Hudson River waterfront.
- 1910
A brewing company's realty arm takes over the Holland Hotel after foreclosure
In 1910 the hotel was foreclosed and advertised for sale in September. The Crescent-Star Realty Company took it over; the firm was tied to the Jacob Hoffman Brewing Company, which had lent money on the property. Philip Hoffman was vice president of both. By 1920 the hotel was known as the Clyde, and from 1935 as the New Holland Hotel.
- 1920
The Evening Post calls Weehawken Street a street of hotels
On June 15, 1920, the New York Evening Post described Weehawken Street as a one-block street of hotels. It said the street ran from the Hotel Christopher, standing on Christopher Street's south side, to the Clyde Hotel, this building, on the north side of West 10th Street. The paper also mentioned O'Neil's Hotel and an unnamed three-story hostel at 394-395 West Street.
“Weehawken Street, “a Street of Hotels,” ... connects the Hotel Christopher on the south side of Christopher Street with the Clyde Hotel on the north side of West Tenth Street…”
- 1972
A gay bar and grill, Peter Rabbit, is a tenant of the New Holland Hotel by 1972
By 1972 a gay bar and grill called Peter Rabbit was a commercial tenant at the New Holland Hotel, and it stayed until at least 1988. It was one of several gay bars on the western blocks of Christopher and West Streets from the early 1970s on, where waterfront taverns had become a nucleus for bars catering to gay patrons. The hotel itself had 36 rooms in 1950.
“By 1972, Peter Rabbit, a gay bar and grill, was a commercial tenant, which remained until at least 1988.”
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