New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-20
ANOTHER BIG UPTOWN HOTEL.
FOR A NINE.sToRY STRUCTURE IN HARLEM
TO HAVE TWO HUNDRED FEET FRONTAGE IN

TO HAVE TWO HUNDRED FEET FRONTAGE IN
FIFTHAvE.-A SYNDICATE TO BUILD 1T.
Plans have been completed for one of the largest and
bestcquipped hotels in America to be built shortly on
the east side of Fifth-ave between hundrei-ana-
twenty-ffth and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SIS:
The hotel will be nincstory structure, with light
huff bick front immei with terra Gotta. Its frontag,
in Fifthave will be 200 feet, running the entire dis
lance from Oneundred- and twenty ffth-st. TO One
hundred and twenty sxh-st, and II Will have depth
of 100 feet in both East Onehundred
and East One hundred sixth ss This plot
of ground the property of Jesse Powers, OF NO. "a
Mount Morrs-ave and lie In conjunction win syh
dicate Of we'll known downtown hotel men, whose
names are at present withheld, viii build the hotel.
The ground is at present occupied by the Jackson
Seminary an old frame building, which stands In the
centre of the plot surrounded by gardens and shrub
berry.
The main entrance to the hotel will be in Ffthave,
coudistant from One hundred twenty -hfthst ana
One hundred and twenty ST.. and on each de OF
the main entrance hall will be the Offices, news ano
cigar stands and the usual accomplishments OF FIRST
class hotel Office The corner on the ground
floor at Onehundred- and twenty ifth-st. and Fifth
ave- will be used as drug store and next
to that In East One-hundred -and-t"ehty HUI
st. will be a cafe, bInard-rooms and readingrooms
which will take up all the front In that street oh
the corner at Fifthave. and East One-hunoreo
One-hundred and tive ST., VIII be SUCCESSION
~ hall rooms and dining rooms which will be separated
nv glass partitions that be removed at Will 50 as
IN throw the entire suite into one hail. East One
hundred and twenty slxthst. IS residence street ana
the houses opposite this plot OF the best CLASS 50
that the dining-r room this side Will be especially
desirable. There will be other public and private
dining on the second moor anu IN Quiet poi''
of the building.
The hotel viii be froproof throughout and Will be
hchted by electricity and heated with steam ex-
clusively. -Four elevators in different wings OF the
building will facilitate passage in the hotel, while
beside the grand central stairway there Will be seven
or eight sairways in other parts Of the hotel running
up to the top floor. The building will be finished
and decorated in the handsomest manner and aner
the most approved styles There will be nearly 100
suites of rooms in the hotel, besides fifty to sixty
single rooms.
ON the eighth floor there will be recitation room
or a miniature theatre which, although considerably
smaller than public theatre, will be perfectly ap-
pointed and elegantly and luxuriOusly fitted up IL
Is intended more especially for private theatricals
Its dimensions will be 100 feet by 40. Adjoining this
theatre ON the floor Will bo another ballroom
100 feet by so, which designed TO be one OF the
handsomest bathrooms in the country. The hotel Will
have high tower directly over the entrance In flrh-
ave. besides two smaller towers one at One-hunded-
andtwenty -ffth-st and Fafthave. and the other at
One-hundred and twenty -sixth-st. and Nfthave. On
the ninth floor will be garden with potted plants,
flowers vines and shrubbery, with facilities at hand
for supplying refreshments for patrons who wish TO
enjoy the splendid view which this elevation VIII
afford.
Mr. Powers said to Tribune reporter last night !:
&" have been intending 10 build this hotel Tor some
time and have refused tempting offers for thus plot
of ground for Just this reason. The final arrange
ments with the syndicate of downtown hotel men mas
not vet been made, the hotel will surely be built
i'm short time and no expense will be spared either
In the building or In the decorations and furnishing.
1t Is only question of rapid transit that VIII make
Harlem q most desirable centre. When business
man can come from the city Han 10 One-hundred-
and-twenty ffth-st in twelve minutes there Is no
question that large portion of them will come to
Harlem