Marlton Hotel

5 West 8th Street | also 3 West 8th Street | Greenwich Village | built 1900

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.

1906
Galo Plaza, future president of Ecuador, is born at the hotel
Galo Plaza, who later served as President of Ecuador, came into the world at the Marlton in 1906, the child of diplomats. The hotel, built in 1900, mostly took transient guests, though some stayed for months or years. Its low prices and Village location drew struggling actors, poets, and artists.
Source: Wikipedia
1913
Lillian Gish economizes with a sterno lamp in room 408
Actress Lillian Gish lived in room 408 of the Marlton Hotel in 1913. Albert Bigelow Paine later described it as a tiny room she took to save money, where she cooked tinned food and tea over a sterno lamp.
Source: Wikipedia
1964
Lenny Bruce lives at the Marlton during his obscenity trial
Comedian Lenny Bruce lived at the Marlton Hotel during his 1964 trial on obscenity charges. He is one of many performers and writers listed among the hotel's notable guests.
Source: Wikipedia
1987
The New School leases the hotel as a student dormitory
The New School began leasing the Marlton in 1987 and used it as a dormitory. Its residents were mostly upper-division students from Parsons, Eugene Lang College, Mannes, and the school's jazz program.
Source: Wikipedia
2013
September
BD Hotels reopens the Marlton as a boutique hotel
BD Hotels, in partnership with hotelier Sean MacPherson, bought the Marlton in 2012 to restore it and run it as a mid-range boutique hotel. The hotel reopened in September 2013.
Source: Wikipedia

Nearby