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Coleman House
| Name | Coleman House |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway |
| Art des Unternehmens | Handelshaus |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Broadway and 27th Street. Eigentümer: Jas. H. Rodgers |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 256] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1866 |
Gründung |
| 1883 |
Mr. Rodgers wird Eigentümer |
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| Handel |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | In a work of this nature, which comprehends a review of the most important interests of the commercial metropolis of the United States, no portion of the subject enlarged on will attract the general attention of the public so largely as that which treats of the best and most desirable hotels. In this respect it may be'stated with pride that the city of New York can claim superiority over all others. The advantages of the European plan, which may readily be seen and recognized, have induced several of our leading and most popular hotel men to adopt it, and believing that the establishment of his house upon this plan would meet the wants of a very large number of the city and travelling community, Mr. Rodgers adopted the system, and the result has in a very marked degree justified his most sanguine expectations." Mr. Rodgers, though still in the prime of life, is one of our most successful and widely known hotel proprietors. He has, as it were, grown up in the business, and for many years held confidential relations and exercised great responsibilities at Earle's hotel. It is now eighteen years ago since he first opened the "Coleman" at the then well known up-town corner of Broadway and 27th Street. Now the growth of the city places it as one of the most central, fashionable and desirable locations for a hotel in the metropolis. Here Mr. Rodgers has built up not only an enormous business, but also the highest of reputations as a talented and progressive hotel proprietor. At the head of a large staff of assistants and employees, he has always given close personal attention to the wants of his numerous patrons, and his establishment is widely known as the best place in the city at which to secure comfortable rooms and polite attendance, while the restaurant in the house has long been famed for the excellence of its cuisine and moderate tariff of charges. Mr. Rodgers' numerous outside interests for a brief period compelled him to give up the proprietorship of the " Coleman," but since December, 1883, he has again assumed proprietorship and absolute control, and the establishment has attained all its old time prosperity, and is ever crowded with the best class of guests found amid the travelling public and city population. The "Coleman " is in every respect a strictly first-class hotel, and with its two hundred fine rooms and magnificent location, is a representative type of what a New York hostelry should be. THE KENSINGTON OF SARATOGA. - Mr. Rodgers is likewise the esteemed owner and proprietor of the very popular " Kensington " Hotel, at Saratoga Springs, New York. It is situated centrally on high ground in the best location, and is one of the most attractive houses in Saratoga. Since its opening two years ago by Mr. Rodgers, it has earned the very highest of reputations as a first-class ably conducted establishment, and to those desiring a pleasant home for the summer at the great watering place it offers unusual inducements. It is a favorite resort for our first-class families, and is possessed of every comfort and is fully and luxuriously furnished, while its grounds are among the most attractive in Saratoga. The cuisine is strictly first-class, and Mr. Rodgers, as is well known, is one of the most liberal of purveyors. We predict for the Kensington a long and successful career under its present able management. Mr. Rodgers is a gentleman of great executive ability. He has had the benefit of many years of practical experience. He possesses excellent judgment, is a genial and attentive host, and embodies all the qualities of permanent and enduring success in his arduous profession. He, in addition to the proprietorship of two large hotels, controls the Erie Railway Dining-Hall at Hornellsville, New York, which every traveller via the Erie can speak in fitting terms as spreading a most. excellently managed and bountifully supplied table, and which renders it the most, popular railway dining-hall in existence. In conclusion it may be said that Mr. Rodgers is esteemed and respected by all as an honorable man, both in public and social life, and is justly entitled to recognition in the present volume as one of New York's self-made men, and whose, permanent success as a hotel owner and proprietor can be attested to by the thousands who have enjoyed his. warm hospitality. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 256] |
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