1897 - Architecture, Real Estate

Architecture, Real Estate

London's Connaught Hotel has its beginnings in the Coburg Hotel, opened in May on Grosvenor Square with a dining room that seats 75 (named for the late Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, it will become the Connaught in 1915) (see 1935).

New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened by John Jacob Astor IV, 30, who has had architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh design a 17-story Astor House at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue and combined it with the 13-story Hardenbergh-designed Waldorf Hotel opened by his estranged cousin William Waldorf Astor in 1893. The 1,000-room hotel has 765 private baths and is the largest, most luxurious hotel in the world (see new Waldorf-Astoria, 1931).