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Grand Hotel
| Name | Grand Hotel |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway |
| Art des Unternehmens | Hotel |
| Anmerkungen | Lage (um 1884): Broadway und 31st Street. Henry Milford Smith & Son, Eigentümer. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 150] |
| Zeit |
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| 1869 |
Errichtung des Hotels |
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| Hotelbetrieb |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
1884 |
[New Yorks great ind. (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The metropolis has ever been recognized as the centre where large capital, Ample practical experience and boundless enterprise have combined to make its hotels superior to any in the country. Among the leading and strictly first-class houses is the Grand Hotel, so eligibly located corner of Broadway and 31st Street. The advantages of the European plan were readily seen and recognized by the proprietors, Messrs. Henry Milford Smith & Son, and it is to-day the leading hotel of the city conducted upon that most practical plan, and has given unqualified satisfaction, as can be testified to by the thousands of the best classes of the travelling public who have enjoyed its hospitalities. The hotel was erected about fifteen years ago, and fronts majestically on Broadway and 31st Street, being eight stories in height and architecturally one of the most beautiful structures, as tt is one of the largest upon the main thoroughfare of the city. Internally, its arrangements are in every respect up to the highest standard of comfort and elegance, and no pains or expense have been spared by its esteemed proprietors to render it a permanently representative New York hotel, strictly first-class in every respect. The senior proprietor of the Grand Hotel, Mr. Henry Milford Smith, is a gentleman as widely known as he is warmly respected throughout all sections of the United States, and one who has manifested superior qualifications for the keeping of a first-class hotel. Mr. Smith was born in New Hampshire, and upon leaving home went first to Boston, where he began his career as a hotel proprietor in charge of the old Franklin House, remaining in Boston for ten years. From Boston, Mr. Smith went to Pittsburg. wlwre. as manager and proprietor of the old Exchange Hotel, he remained for eleven years. winning golden opinions alike from the citizens and travelling public. The old Exchange Hotel, afterward called the St. Clair. and which was recently demolished to make way for a new modern hotel, to be the finest house in Pittsburg, is replete with historic interest, having been the stopping-place of all the notables who visited that city. It was there that Mr. Smith acted as host to the famous novelist. Charles Dickens, accompanied by his wife, and upon their departure Dickens sent him a letter, thanking him for his courteous and kindly attentions, and speaking of the solid comfort he had taken while there. Mrs. Dickens joined with her husband in expressions of gratitude, and both the distinguished guests manifested sincere regret at leaving a house where they had been the recipients of such warm-hearted hospitality. Mr. Smith carefully preserves Dickens's letter, and it is certainly a relic well worth treasuring up. Afterward, Dickens made complimentary reference to Mr. Smith's hotel in his "American Notes." All the great American statesmen and politicians made it their stopping-place during Mr. Smith's proprietorship. Among them such celebrities as Presidents Polk, Buchanan, Harrison and Tyler, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, etc., etc. After a successful career in Pittsburg Mr. Smith went to Baltimore, where for fifteen years he was the esteemed proprietor of the well known Maltby House, one of the largest hotels of the city, and which he maintained at the same high standard of excellence as the Exchange. Removing from Baltimore Mr. Smith came to the metropolis of New York, where he has been a permanent resident for the past twenty-two years, and the popular and enterprising proprietor of the Grand Hotel ever since it was opened. Mr. Smith is now seventy-five years of age. and a younger looking man does not live. He is hale and hearty, the picture of robust health, and would pass at any time, and anywhere, for a gentleman not over fifty-five. His son, Mr. Dinwiddie Smith, is a thoroughly practical hotel man, actively associated with his father in the management of this magnificent hotel, which with its two hundred and thirty-three rooms, elegantly furnished, singly or en suite, and its fine restaurant, render it one of the most attractive as it is one of the best managed and most central hotels in New York. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 150] |
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