New-York tribune., 1890-05-29
TO BUILD 4 PALA7LAL HOTEL.
THE ASTOR ESTATE TO EXPEND ABOUT
100000 ON 1T.
1T WILL BE ERECTED WHERE JOHN JACOB
AsToR's HOUSE sTANDs-To BE MODELLED
AFTER EUROPEAN STRUCTURES.

AFTER EUROPEAN STRUCTURES.
The announcement that the Astor estate intends to
give Nqw.York a new hotel, which in the luxury of
lis appointments will eclipse the glories OF all the
existing hostelrics OF the metropolis Will give
satisfaction to those travellers who like to be as COM
Portable as possible and can afford to pay for the
luxury. The hotel is to be erected on the north
west OF Ffthave. and Thirtythrdst, the site
Of John Jacob AstOr's old home 1t Will have
frontage Of $50 feet in Thirtythirdst and 100 feet
in Ffthave. This includes the ground now occupied
by two houses the side street, which, as well as
the Astor homestead, must be removed TO make way
for the structure Out of respect to his fathers
memory, Mr.. Astor Is unwilling to have the home In
which he died touched before November next. The
home OF william Astor, at the southwest corner OF
Fifth ave and Thirty fourthst will not be disturbed.
Henry J. Hardenbergh the architect OF tho new hoel
says that it will probably be finished during inc
summer of 1892. The present intention, however, Is
not to open it before the fall Of that year Including
the ground which it will stand the cost OF the
hotel Will be between $1,750O00 and S2,oo0,00O.
II Is be ten stories In height, built OF stone and
brick, and nearly freproof as 1t can be made a
departure from the usual practice in the construction
Of hotels will be the fact that there will be no en-
trance to break the facade on the principal street
largo dining room, occupying the whole Of the Fifth
ave- 'front.' measuring about 95 BY so feet Will be an
attractive feature.
All the entrances will be on the Thirty -third-st
side of the building There are to be two loggias on
the side-Onc which is to be filled with plants, over
the main entrance. and the other three stories above
Little balconies and reccsses at intervals will break
the monotony of both fronts. The windows Will be
square, and the line of steep-pltched roof in which
there will also be windows, Will be broken by towers
and chlmncys giving picturesque effect
Tho interior of the house will be modelled to some
extent on European plans. In central court about
sixty feet long ard forty feet wide there is to be
garden in which men may smoke, and large care Oh
the ground floor Will open upon this court new
departure is the proposed social room on Ic sailc
floor where men and women may meet and where
smoking viii be allowed
Guests who ask the way to the bar will be disap-
pointed but console themselves in the caie proo
ably on the new Boston plan.
one Of Nr. Astors ideas in connection with the
now hotel is 10 insure greater privacy the guests
tlan the average hotel grants. Accordingly the
rooms are TO open on number Oh sIoIt oo'ruG.o yt
80 that nv closing the door Of corridor suite
may be shut on from the rest Of the hOuse "ihie U.
hccpiuy the corridor door open easy access VIII oy
had 10 the rooms within, when they are rented
separately. A concierge, or porter, VIII oe louHu ~
the Nor of the hotel to keep out people who nave no
II is too early vet to speak definitely about the
dccorAi.ons7 aid Mr.. Hardenbereh yesterday, " but
every effort VIII be made toward refinement without
Gorgeous claborati)n' -,
Van Corcar and the Dakota apartment'houses and
both Of tie Western Union Telegraph Company
buildings " . -, 49, ,..
have % much confidence that they Will build the
hons, 70 A considerable extent In accordance Win
~" dr,. viii be George c. BOldt. who has made such
, success In tho management of the Hotels stratford
and Pecvue ard the restaurant in the Bulit Building
I'm Philadelphia.