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Murray Hill Hotel
| Name | Murray Hill Hotel |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Park Avenue |
| Art des Unternehmens | Hotel |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Park Avenue, von 40th bis 41st Street. Eigentümer: Hunting & Hammond |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 298] |
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1884 |
[New York's great industries (1884)] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The progress of the metropolis has not been more demonstrated than in the history of her hotels, which have long commanded the admiration of the world. As the city has grown in wealth and importance, new structures have been reared of increasing size and splendor, and in every case the Darwinian law of the "survival of the fittest" has been observed. It is universally admitted that to-day the "Murray Hill Hotel" is the leading type of perfection in its field of enterprise, and has in throwing open its hospitable doors, inaugurated a new era in the business. The site has been wisely chosen upon the brow of "Murray Hill", directly central to all the fashionable residential sections of the city, and what is of as great advantage, within a. few steps only of New York's Railroad Depot, the sole point of arrival and departure in the city proper for trains to all points on the continent. The location is equally convenient to all the principal lines of the elevated railroad and street cars, while the Broadway stages also pass its doors. The building fronts two hundred feet on Park Avenue, extending two hundred and thirty feet along 40th Street, and two hundred and thirty feet along 41st Street, seven stories in height, and is admittedly the handsomest specimen of hotel architecture in the country. The architects of the "Murray Hill" gave the greatest attention in their plans to securing the maximum of light, space and ventilation, and succeeded admirably, as demonstrated in the cheerful halls and rotunda, corridors, reception-rooms and parlors. The building is the only hotel in the city that is practically fire-proof in construction, stone, iron, and cement being used to the entire exclusion of wood in the walls, floors, stair-cases, etc. In addition to its fire-proof qualities the safety of the house is insured by the introduction of a most powerful complete water system, with tanks on the roof holding fourteen thousand gallons, and a hose room on each floor, so that absolute security from fire is guaranteed to the public. There are three main entrances to this immense hotel, wide and lofty halls leading to the office rotunda, which is the lumdsomest of its kind in the city, and with the reception parlors and drawing-rooms, are decorated and furnished in the most elaborate manner, the finest talent of the fresco painter, upholsterer, and sculptor having been se- cured with corresponding results. The main dining hall is a magnificent apartment beautifully lit, and with its adjoining smaller refreshment and tea rooms afford perfect accommodation for the guests. Both a table d'hote and a restaurant & la carte have been provided, so that the wealthy residents of Murray Hill can forego all the inconvenience and care of keeping up an elaborate kitchen service, and dme regularly in comfort almost at their own doors. The culinary department is in charge of a well known chef and a competent staff of assistants, while the catering is conducted upon that basis of liberality so characteristic of the proprietors, Messrs. Hunting and Hammond. A feature of the "Murray Hill" is its numerous suites of elegant parlors and connecting rooms, specially planned to be the most commodious, cheerful and luxurious to be found in the city, and which give guests and their families an opportunity for the same seclusion and quiet which they obtain in their own private house. The interior arrangements are admirably conceived, and ease of access by the finest improved safety passenger elevators is afforded to all parts of the house. The furnishings were specially manufactured for the "Murray Hill" by the most prominent houses in their respective lines in the city, and the results are exhibited in its splendid parlors and suites of rooms. Comfort as well as luxury have been secured in all cases, and the most refined and wealthy families of New York and the other great centres are agreeably surprised to enter upon the possession of such luxurious apartments, fitted up as they are with the latest triumphs of art and science. The equipment of the "Murray Hill" is perfect throughout, and this will be illustrated when it is stated that improved appliances have been introduced by which an unvarying temperature is maintained throughout the vast structure both in winter and summer. Messrs. Hunting and Hammond, the lessees of the "Murray Hill Hotel", are among the best known and most popular of New York's citizens Mr. Hunting has long been identified with leading financial circles, and is an esteemed member of the New York Stock Exchange, one who has ever been indefatigable in his support of all measures to best increase its permanent welfare and prosperity. Mr. Hammond is one of the best known and most popular hotel men of the metropolis, and under whose capable and enterprising management the Hotel Bristol attained such success. He brings to the personal superintendence of every department of the "Murray Hill" the lengthy experience, admirable management, and systematic and careful attention to the welfare of his guests, which have been the factors of his past success as a hotel propi ietor. Messrs, Hunting and Hammond have now accommodations and facilities at command superior to those of any other hotel in the United States, iu every feature of refinement, elegance and comfort, while the prices charged are about one dollar per day lower than those of any other first-class house in New York, and though only just opened it has at once attained a widespread patronage and is recognized as being a permanent success and the representative institution of its kind in the city. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 298] |
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