page_title: St. Nicholas Hotel (New York City)
section_title: Demise
hierarchical_section_title: St. Nicholas Hotel (New York City) / Demise
caption_attribution_description: 521 and 523 Broadway, between Spring and Broome Streets in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, were built in 1853-54 as part of the northern wing of the St. Nicholas Hotel complex, which extended from 507 to 527 Broadway. These two buildings, which were designed by J. B. Snook or Griffith Thomas, are the only remnants of the hotel. They are It located within the SoHo - Cast Iron Historic District. (Source: "NYCLPC SoHo - Cast-Iron Historic District Designation Report")
context_page_description: The St. Nicholas Hotel was a 600-room, mid-nineteenth century luxury hotel on Broadway in the neighborhood of SoHo in Manhattan, New York City. It opened on January 6, 1853, and by the end of the year had expanded to 1,000 rooms. The St. Nicholas raised the bar for a new standard of lavish appointments for a luxury hotel. It was the first New York City building to cost over US$1 million. The hotel was said to have ended the Astor House's preeminence in New York hostelry.
context_section_description: By the later part of the nineteenth century, the hotel had declined in popularity, most New York City tourists preferring to stay farther uptown. Beginning in the mid 1870s, certain parts of the hotel building were converted to other uses. The Snook-designed Loubat store (No. 503–5ll) took the southern wing in 1878. The central portion (No. 513–519) became Samuel Warner's store and warehouse in 1884. The hotel permanently closed then. A sliver of the original building was saved when the hotel was demolished in the twentieth century. This is now the luxury condos of 521 and 523 Broadway. The upper stories of No. 521 have most of their original ornamented moldings on the windows.
  Although the hotel once occupied the entire block adjacent to Broome Street, the building has more or less disappeared; only Lady Footlocker and The Puma Store now occupy the first (ground) floor of the remaining sliver. The opulent exterior was the subject of an 1855 lithograph by artist Frederick Heppenheimer, which is now part of the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, being artifact No. 39.253.6.
caption: 521 and 523
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