Roger Smith Hotel

501 Lexington Avenue | Turtle Bay | built 1927

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

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1926
Hearn & Erich build the Hotel Winthrop on Lexington Avenue
Architects Hearn & Erich constructed this Lexington Avenue building in 1926, and it was first known as the Hotel Winthrop. It kept that name until the Roger Smith Corporation took it over in 1938. The building today has 136 rooms and a brick facade.
Source: Wikipedia
1938
The Roger Smith Corporation takes over the hotel and renames it
The Roger Smith Corporation opened its first hotel in Stamford, Connecticut, in December 1928 and added seven more over the next ten years. It took over the former Hotel Winthrop in 1938 and renamed it the Roger Smith. Most of the chain's hotels were later destroyed or changed hands, and this one is perhaps the only of the eight still carrying the name.
Source: Wikipedia
2021
The Roger Smith Hotel closes in 2021 and is later sold to timeshare companies
The family-run Roger Smith Hotel, established in 1929, closed in 2021. A timeshare company bought it in 2022, and the vacant building was resold in January 2024 to another timeshare company, Holiday Inn Club.
Source: Wikipedia

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