The sun., 1913-11-09

Last Year r-Biltmore.
the Largest, Has 1000
RoomS-Hotel District
Extended by Erection
of Large Houses as Far
North as I15th Street
built into the structure. They are en-
trely separated from the hotel proper.
and in many Casets have been designed
by the architects of the future tenants.
Each apartment consists of from eight
! to twelve rooms with quarters for SER
wants. Just as though they were in or
dnary apartment houses. All of the
apartments have dining rooms. but none
| has a kitchen. These apartments are
on the Vanderbilt avenue and Forty
third street sides Of the eighteenth.
nineteenth and twentieth floors OF the
| building, each ono occupying space
! of approximately 60x6S feet. II Is said
| that the cost of constructing. decorat-
| ing and furnishing some of these apart
ments will equal the cost Of a complete
| city residence. The leases on these
apartments are ali for long terms OF
years.
Another interesting addition to hotel
| buildings during the last year is the
I Theresa at 125th street and Seventh
avenue. II is a twelve story building,
occupying the block front on Seventh
e,N, 70
cost s4OO 900 II build and takes the place
, Of the old Hotel Winthrop, six story
building which stood on the site for
many years. This is Harlcms first
high class hotel. and for that reason
will be watched with special interest.
The owners of the Prince George
Hotel on Twenty-eighth street, between
FIFTH and Madison avenues, are just
completing an addition to that building
which is costing s+50, 900 TO erect which
will increase the capacity of the hotel
by 50 per cent. It. too. is "A twelve story
building extending toward the east
from the original hotel structure. 1t
was expected also that an addition to
the Seville at Madison avenue and
Twcnty-ninth street would be ready
this fall, but trouble with adjoining
| owners prevented tho carrying out OF
the proposed extension.
West Fifty-fifth and Fffty-ninth
streets have seen considerable activity
during the last year In hotel construc.
ton. George Backer completed the
IOrington on Fifty-flfth street. near
Seventh avenue, early in the year. and
sold it almost Mt once. He has bought
a site for another nine story building
on tn. same street next 10 the north
west corner of Fifth avenue. This hotel
Will be started during the winter. The
Lorington has one, two and three room
apartments. which is the size of suites
in most of the buildings recently erected
through that part Of the city At
81 West Fifty-ninth street a twelve
story building was completed recently
from plans by Rouse and Goldstone.
who have done most of the hotel plan
ming in this section, including the l.or-
ington and the Langdon. "A new hotel at
Fifty-slxth street and Fifth avenue. A
feature of the Fifty-ninth street build
ing is seen in the principal rooms on
each floor. which extend all the way
across the front of the building. which
stands on a twenty-five foot lot Only
a month ago II was announced that
plans were being prepared for improv-
ing the a. $. Cochran property at "a to
- West Fifty-ninth street. near the
Plaza Hotel. with a seventeen story
hotel building. Nothing more has been
heard Of this venture, however.
ON the middle west side north Of
Fifty-ninth street three hotels are un.
der way or about to be started. Julius
Tishman q Sons, Inc. have bouEh,
the land and had plans prepared for a
twelve story building at 324 and 326
West EiEhty-fourth street and the
Watt Investing Company is going
ahead with similar building at 800
and 81 West Eighty-siXth street Both
of these houses will be so arranged that
tenants can have apartments of from
two 10 five rooms with one To three
baths. but there will be no housekeep-
ing facilities.
Harry SChif is completing twelve
story hotel at the northeast corner Of
broadway and Ninety-fourth street al
a cost Of $500, 900 for construction. I,
is farthest off the line of any of the
new hotels. It is said that 1t will he
a bachelor house, a most radical depart.
ure for that part If the city.
one of the novelties in hotel constr,ic.
tiOn seen this year Is the seven story
structure at l19 and l21 East Twenty.
ninth street. which Mrs. Frederick Van
derhlt Is erecting at a cost of $3.50, 900
1t is "a hotel for working girls, the largest
structure of its kind erected in this city
1t is n philanrhropic proposition and II
building is intended more for a perma
nent home for about 100 girls than fol
a transient hotel.