Allerton Hotel for Women

690 Lexington Avenue | also 692 Lexington Avenue, 696 Lexington Avenue, 130 East 57th Street | East Midtown | built 1922

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1923
The Allerton Hotel for Women opens with a long waiting list
Architect Arthur Loomis Harmon's seventeen-story Allerton Hotel for Women opens in 1923 on the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 57th Street. The Allerton House Company builds it for $700,000 as lodging for business and professional women, with room for about 400 tenants. Every room is reserved before the building is even finished.
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1956
May
The Women's University Club moves its headquarters into the hotel
The Women's University Club makes the Allerton Hotel its headquarters beginning in May 1956, after leaving the New York Biltmore Hotel. The Allerton chain, started in 1916 by James Stewart Cushman, takes its name from Mary Allerton, a Mayflower ancestor of his. It grows to eight hotels, including ones in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland.
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2009
The Allerton becomes the Renaissance New York Hotel 57
A $40 million redesign turns the former Allerton Hotel for Women into the Renaissance New York Hotel 57 in 2009. The seventeen-story brick, limestone, and terra cotta building at 130 East 57th Street, designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon, is now also known as Hotel 57.
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