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HOTEL NEW NETHERLAND

architect

William Hume

___location

781 Fifth Avenue

date

1893 (replaced in 1927 by the Sherry Netherland Hotel tower).

style

Chateauesque Historicist Skyscrapers

construction

Steel frame, masonry cladding.

type

Hotel
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HOTEL NEW NETHERLAND


Designed by William Hume and completed in 1893, this neo-Romanesque reached seventeen stories and 234 feet and was claimed the "tallest hotel structure in the world." It was replaced in 1927 by the Sherry Netherland Hotel tower.

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