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| Description | The building at 799 Broadway on the corner of East 11th Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City was built in 1853 as the St. Denis Hotel and was designed by James Renwick, Jr. who also designed Grace Church across Broadway. The hotel was called "architecturally one of the handsomest buildings on Broadway" and attracted clients such as Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, Sarah Bernhardt, P. T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill Cody and Chester A. Arthur. Alexander Graham Bell gave the first demonstration of his new invention, the telephone, at the hotel. In 1891 the hotel expanded, doubling its capacity. It was taken over by a new company in 1912, which filed for bankruptcy within a year. A syndicate bought the hotel in 1920, intending to demolish it for a commercial building, but instead they converted the hotel to an office building, in the proces stripping off all of Renwick's ornamentation, leaving a bare, bland characterless building, which remains today. (Source: Daytonian in Manhattan) |
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